After contact with a patient's spinal fluid, a lab technician developed fever, nausea, and purple lesions on her neck and extremities. A throat culture grew gram-negative diplococci. What is the genus of the bacteria?
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So, the genus of the bacteria is Neisseria. #2: The symptoms, the fact that the children received pet ducklings, and the description of the bacteria (gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, serovar C) suggest that the children were infected with Salmonella Show more…
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