Organisms belonging to the genus Brucella are:

a. gram-positive diplococci.
b. gram-positive diphtheroid bacilli.
c. gram-negative coccobacilli.
d. gram-negative bacilli.


C
Organisms belonging to the genus Brucella are small, nonmotile, aerobic, gram-negative cocco-bacilli or short rods that stain poorly with conventional Gram stain.

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