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An antibiogram is performed on a sample from your patient's wound. The causative agent is found to be resistant to methicillin and vancomycin. This indicates that

An antibiogram is performed on a sample from your patient's wound. The causative agent is found to be resistant to methicillin and vancomycin. This indicates that


A) her infection is untreatable and will likely be fatal within a few days.
B) antibiotics such as linezolid, daptomycin, or tigecycline are needed to treat her.
C) she likely acquired the organism in a community setting rather than in the hospital.
D) the causative organism is likely a member of her intestinal normal microbiota.
E) the causative organism does not produce the protein coagulase.

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