Having Received No Prenatal Care, a Young Woman Arrives at a Hospital

question 11

Multiple Choice

Having received no prenatal care, a young woman arrives at a hospital after many hours of labor and delivers a baby girl.Three days later the baby girl is listless, nursing poorly, and is running a fever.Blood cultures are done, and after 24 hours, they are Gram stained and show the presence of gram-positive cocci in pairs and short chains.Upon subculture, these form colonies that are beta hemolytic on blood agar.Further tests demonstrate that the isolate is catalase negative, resistant to bacitracin, and is CAMP test positive.What is the identification of this organism?

• A)Streptococcus pyogenes
• B)Streptococcus pneumoniae
• C)Streptococcus agalactiae
• D)Staphylococcus aureus
• E)Neisseria meningitidis

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