A woman of 55 has been hospitalised for 2 weeks following a fractured neck of femur. She has had an indwelling urinary catheter in situ for 4 days, and has developed a fever, rigors and cloudy urine. You send a specimen of urine to the laboratory, and 12 hours later you are told that an oxidase positive Gram negative bacillus is growing. This is most likely to be:
A. Escherichia coli
B. Proteus mirabilis
C. Neisseria gonorrhoeae
D. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
E. Lactobacillus acidophilus
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Infectious Diseases MCQs
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