A technician in a clinical laboratory uses a flowchart to ID an infectious agent. The microbe is Gram negative, facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile, oxidase negative, and is able to ferment glucose. The technician correctly concludes that the pathogen is either Shigella or Klebsiella. How do you respond to the technician's report?
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This is sufficient information to diagnose and treat the patient.
More information is required, additional tests will need to be performed to differentiate between these two Genera.
This was an inappropriate way to identify the specimen. Flowcharts are never a useful tool in diagnostics.
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More information is required, additional tests will need to be performed to differentiate between these two Genera.
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