Characteristics That Strongly Indicate the Presence of Pigmented Prevotella or Porphyromonas

question 21

Multiple Choice

Characteristics that strongly indicate the presence of pigmented Prevotella or Porphyromonas in a clinical specimen include:

• A)yellow-green fluorescence.
• B)rhizoid margins resembling a "Medusa head" on anaerobic blood agar.
• C)brick-red fluorescence under long-wavelength ultraviolet (UV)light.
• D)chartreuse fluorescens.

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