A patient is diagnosed with gas gangrene in the skin as a result of bullous lesions associated with sepsis. The Gram-stain reaction and morphologic features of the most probable pathogen causing this infection is:

a. gram-positive cocci.
b. gram-positive bacilli.
c. gram-negative coccobacilli.
d. gram-negative bacilli.


B
The organism that causes gas gangrene is Clostridium perfringens, which is a gram-positive ba-cillus.

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