The microbiology laboratory receives a nasopharyngeal specimen. The technologist fails to report the direct Gram stain and inoculates the sample onto routine culture media including blood agar, chocolate agar, and MacConkey agar. The discrepancy is:
a. there is no discrepancy.
b. the microbiologist failed to report the di-rect Gram stain.
c. the microbiologist failed to report the di-rect Gram stain and inoculated unneces-sary media.
d. the microbiologist inoculated unnecessary media.
D
Typically direct Gram stains of nasopharyngeal specimens are not routine practice due to the presence of a large variety of normal microbiota that represent pathogens during Gram staining. Additionally, gram-negative organisms capable of growth on selective/differential MacConkey agar are not isolated from the nasopharyngeal cavity.
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