q??????? - catherinejoseph

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A 67-year-old male is hospitalized with low-grade fevers, fatigue, and a disatolic murmur at the left sternal border. Blood cultures reveal Gram-positive cocci that are catalase-negative and able to grow in 6.5% saline. The patient's medical history is most likely to reveal which of the following procedures in the past month?

A. Dental extraction
B. Skin biopsy
C. Sinus drainage
D. Nasal polypectomy
E. Cystoscopy

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A- Dental extraction. this patient contracted S. viridans from a dental procedure which led to his subacute endocarditis.

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e. cystooscopy

Enterococcus from a G.I. procedure leading bacterial infective endocarditis

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enterococcus species.........hydrolyse bile and grow in high salt
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