Medical Asepsis and Infection Control

When you learn that your patient's infecting bacterium is identified as a gram-positive streptococcus, you know this means that:

A. it appears in rod-shaped pairs and cannot be treated by antibiotics.

B. it appears in sphere-shaped clusters and stains red in the laboratory.

C. it appears as a long, coiling cell and stains blue in the laboratory.

D. it appears in sphere-shaped chains and stains purple in the laboratory.

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