The Patient's Vaginal Specimen Is Sent from the Walk-In Clinic

question 58

Multiple Choice

The patient's vaginal specimen is sent from the walk-in clinic to the microbiology laboratory.There it is cultured on bacteriological media,and then placed into an ambient air incubator set at 22% oxygen and 37 degrees Celsius.The patient is strongly suspected of having gonorrhea.She had sexual contact with a partner recently diagnosed with gonorrhea,and is now displaying the typical symptoms of a vaginal exudate or fluid.Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a microaerophilic gram-negative coccus-shaped bacterium.Seventy-two hours later,the culture has still not grown Neisseria gonorrhoeae so the lab reports the results back as negative.Interpret this result.

• A)The clinical personnel took the sample from an incorrect body area.
• B)The culture was placed into the wrong environment for Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
• C)The inoculating loop was too hot after heating,while streaking the specimen onto agar medium,and the bacteria were all killed.
• D)Neisseria gonorrhoeae cannot be grown in bacteriological media and requires genetic analysis for identification.

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