An organism isolated from the swab of purulent eye drainage shows no fluorescence on the ALA test. The horse blood agar displays no hemolysis. This organism should be reported as
A) Haemophilus influenzae.
B) H. aegyptius.
C) H. influenzae or H. aegyptius, biochemically similar.
D) H. parainfluenzae.
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