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Identify Organism Fist Fight Wound Gram Rods Bleach Like

The organism is Eikenella corrodens, a gram-negative rod found in fist fight wounds, smelling of bleach, and growing on chocolate agar.

The organism is Eikenella corrodens, a gram-negative rod causing infections from fist fights, with a bleach-like odor, that grows on chocolate agar.

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Fist fight wound
Gram (-) rods
Bleach-like odor
grows on chocolate agar
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Eikenella corrodens




Tags: microbiology

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