Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 55

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab.
-The organism is found to grow throughout the entire tube of broth media.Which of the following terms best describes the oxygen requirement of this organism?

• A)obligate aerobe
• B)microaerophile
• C)facultative anaerobe
• D)obligate anaerobe

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