Candida is a part of the normal flora of skin, could cause contamination of a central venous catheter. The question states that the organism is purple, budding, did not respond to broad spectrum antibiotics (aka they didn't use fluconazole or amphotericin B). Lastly, they showed it plated on blood agar and there was no hemolysis which eliminates staph (the only other possible contender here.)
Cryptococcus usually involves meningitis in immunocompromised pts.
E. coli is gram negative
sporothrix is usually transmitted by a thorn on a rose or someone with a history of gardening
hungryboxAlso, the yeast form of Candida is gram (+)+42019-05-31T01:16:00Z
dr_jan_itorI got thrown off by the part where they said "ovoid" and thought they were implying a cigar shape. I chose sporothrix for the morphology in spite of knowing that it clincally made no sense.+2019-08-02T18:39:50Z
lilmonkeyI chose S. aureus before reading the question (looks like b-hemolysis). Then I saw "budding organisms" and picked the correct one.+2019-10-19T23:08:06Z
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submitted by g.liller@yahoo.com(14), 2019-05-27T14:18:34Z
Candida is a part of the normal flora of skin, could cause contamination of a central venous catheter. The question states that the organism is purple, budding, did not respond to broad spectrum antibiotics (aka they didn't use fluconazole or amphotericin B). Lastly, they showed it plated on blood agar and there was no hemolysis which eliminates staph (the only other possible contender here.)
Cryptococcus usually involves meningitis in immunocompromised pts. E. coli is gram negative sporothrix is usually transmitted by a thorn on a rose or someone with a history of gardening