Use an inoculating loop and make only a single streak down the center of each half of the plate: _____ - If your unknown is a Gram-positive and catalase positive coccus, streak one Mannitol Salt plate ...

Gram-positive cocci are often isolated from clinical samples. It is important to be able to distinguish these organisms from one another because while some are normal flora, others can be pathogenic.

Whether such patients might benefit from early antibiotic therapy directed against both gramnegative bacilli and gram-positive cocci needs to be determined.

Gram-positive cocci, predominantly S. epidermidis and S. aureus, cause bacteremia in two-thirds of cases. Among the various approaches to management of CRBSI, removal and delayed replacement of ...