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Two days after undergoing surgery for colon carcinoma, a 66-year-old man began to experience severe pain at the surgical wound site. Within several hours, local edema and tenderness developed at the wound and a thin, brownish discharge was observed. The skin around the wound began to blacken and blisters appeared. The man began to look quite ill with an increased pulse and reduced blood pressure. a. List two or three possible infections and three possible causative agents b. What diagnostic tests would be preformed to identify the causative agent?

          Two days after undergoing surgery for colon carcinoma, a 66-year-old man began to experience severe pain at the surgical wound site. Within several hours, local edema and tenderness developed at the wound and a thin, brownish discharge was observed. The skin around the wound began to blacken and blisters appeared. The man began to look quite ill with an increased pulse and reduced blood pressure.
a. List two or three possible infections and three possible causative agents


b. What diagnostic tests would be preformed to identify the causative agent?

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Two days after undergoing surgery for colon carcinoma, a 66-year-old man began to experience severe pain at the surgical wound site. Within several hours, local edema and tenderness developed at the wound and a thin, brownish discharge was observed. The skin around the wound began to blacken and blisters appeared. The man began to look quite ill with an increased pulse and reduced blood pressure.
a. List two or three possible infections and three possible causative agents

b. What diagnostic tests would be preformed to identify the causative agent?

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Two days after undergoing surgery for colon carcinoma, a 66-year-old man began to experience severe pain at the surgical wound site. Within several hours, local edema and tenderness developed at the wound and a thin, brownish discharge was observed. The skin around the wound began to blacken and blisters appeared. The man began to look quite ill with an increased pulse and reduced blood pressure. a. List two or three possible infections and three possible causative agents b. What diagnostic tests would be preformed to identify the causative agent?

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