45years old male had been working e his garden when he scratched the knuckle of his right aram during digging in ground with a spade,he immediately washed the area but noticed that the knuckle became red,warm to the touch and swollen.he went to hospital,the doctor ordered a hram stain and culture on the pus extracted from the wound. As a microbiologist describe what you can see in on the gram stain taken from the wound site.give a priliminary report on what you can see on culture plates.what is prbable genus and species? Name 2 tests that can be done to positively identify this organism. What are the media used to culture the sample ,and what type of hemolysis seen?

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45years old male had been working e his garden when he scratched the knuckle of his right aram during digging in ground with a spade,he immediately washed the area but noticed that the knuckle became red,warm to the touch and swollen.he went to hospital,the doctor ordered a hram stain and culture on the pus extracted from the wound.

As a microbiologist describe what you can see in on the gram stain taken from the wound site.give a priliminary report on what you can see on culture plates.what is prbable genus and species?

Name 2 tests that can be done to positively identify this organism.

What are the media used to culture the sample ,and what type of hemolysis seen?

 

 

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