The HACEK organisms share all of the following characteristics except

A) part of the normal oral flora.
B) gram-negative coccobacilli that are oxidase and catalase positive.
C) slow growing and stimulated by carbon dioxide.
D) causative agents of bacterial endocarditis.


B

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