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60 yr pt in burn ward of a hospital develops an infection in the burned tissue. Intial treatment with chloramphenicol and tetracycline was unsuccessful. Cultures of infected site revealed Gm negative rods that grew in blood agar, EMB, and trypticase soy agar. On the latter medium they produced a bluish-green pigmentation and aromatic odor. The prganism was susceptible to carbenicillin, gentamicin, amikacin and polymyxin B

I) this organism is most likely:
a) Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
b) Alcaligenes faecalis
c) Flavobacterium so
d) Pseudomona aeruginosa
e) citrobacter sp

II) A major organism associated with nosocomial infections of surgical wounds is:
a) Staph aureus
b) Alcaligenes faecalis
c) Strep pyogenes
d) Strep pneumonia
e) Bacillus cereus

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Q1 pseudomonas A
Q2 staph A

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