A Patient Comes to See You, Complaining of a Very

question 89

Multiple Choice

A patient comes to see you, complaining of a very sore throat. When you examine her, you find that she has a fever of 39^oC, and you observe that her throat is extremely red, with pus on her tonsils. You swab the pus and make a slide, which you then send to the clinical lab for Gram staining. The lab sends back a report in which it is noted that the slide has many long chains of round cells that have stained purple in color.
-You inform the patient that the results of the Gram stain indicate to you that the bacteria in her throat are ________ in shape, and have a ________ cell wall.

• A) round; thin
• B) cylindrical; thick
• C) round; thick
• D) spiral; thick
• E) cylindrical; thin

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