Assume That Your Lab Partner Swabs the Side of His

question 22

Multiple Choice

Assume that your lab partner swabs the side of his face and uses the swab to inoculate a nutrient agar plate. The next day, he performs a Gram stain on the colonies. They are gram -positive cocci. You advise him that he should next look for

• A) an acid-fast reaction.
• B) pseudopods.
• C) a coagulase reaction.
• D) conidiospores.
• E) pseudohyphae.

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