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Published on Mon Nov 11, 2019

Question: A physician performed incision and drainage of a subareolar breast abscess and submitted 3 ml of pus in a universal bottle for lab culture. The lab performed aerobic and anerobic culture and gram stain. The culture was positive for presumptive identification of Staphy­lococcus, so the lab reflexed to definitive identification to S. aureus, followed by typing by genome sequencing, [...]
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