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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2009

A 65-year-old man has purulent abscess on his neck. Analyses revealed a culture of gram-positive cocci with plasmocoagulase activity. This culture relates most likely to:

Answer options

  1. Staphylococcus saprophyticus
  2. -
  3. Staphylococcus epidermidis
  4. Streptococcus pyogenes
  5. Staphylococcus aureus
Correct answer

Staphylococcus aureus

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