A Technician Is Reading a Vaginal Culture on the Bench

question 26

Multiple Choice

A technician is reading a vaginal culture on the bench.There is growth on the sheep blood agar (SBA) and chocolate (CHOC) plates,but no growth on the MacConkey (MAC) plate.The colonies growing on the SBA have produced a narrow,diffuse zone of b-hemolysis around and under the colonies.What organism could this be?

• A) Escherichia coli
• B) Streptococcus agalactiae
• C) Streptococcus pyogenes
• D) Streptococcus pneumoniae

---

Definitions:

Data Types

Categories of data which determine the kind of value that can be stored and manipulated within a program, such as integer, string, or boolean.

Data Lake

A storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed for analytics purposes.

Data Warehouse

A vast collection of data gathered from various sources inside a company, utilized for reporting and analyzing data.

Rapidly Changing Statistics

Data or numbers that are constant in flux, often reflecting real-time changes in conditions or events.