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Cedrick
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07/04/06 - 02:25 PM

A 27 year old man who uses heroin intravenously develops fever followed several day later by dysnea and pleuritic chest pain
X ray films of the chest obtained on successive days show continuous apperance of new bilateral cavitary infiltrates
echocardiaphy discloses a 1.5cm vegetation on the tricuspid valve
cultures of blood and sputum are most likely to grow ?

a.-enterococcus faecium
b.-mycobacterium tuberculosis
c.-staphylococcus aureus
d.-streptococcus pneumoniae
e.-viridans streptococci

ARJ
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07/04/06 - 02:36 PM

c.-staphylococcus aureus

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07/04/06 - 02:51 PM

C

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Cedrick
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07/04/06 - 02:52 PM

Correct C,thanks

Right sided endocarditis.-iv drug abuse,s.aureus,candida albicans,coliform bacilli

MRMAVERICK
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07/12/06 - 02:54 AM

c staph aureus

dericanthony
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08/04/06 - 02:38 AM

the answer is C

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08/13/06 - 07:24 PM

C ..I AGREE

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