A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The organism's metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab.
-The organism is found to grow throughout the entire tube of broth media.Which of the following terms best describes the oxygen requirement of this organism?

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The organism grows throughout the entire tube of broth media, indicating it can grow in both the presence and absence of oxygen, which is characteristic of facultative anaerobes.

A 67-Year-Old Patient with Severe Sepsis Undergoes a Full Infectious