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My first guess before E. faecalis was S. bovis

Buzz words like landlocked made me weirdly associate it to the word "cattle", there's no rationale why it just is. It's the same feeling when someone mentions penicillin and I think of oranges but never the other way around.

Then the word saline which is used at 6.5% NaCl growth to test between Enterococcus spp and S. bovis. This is all not factoring in CHROMagar. I'll read on it further.

 3 years ago  

S. bovis is also blue on the agar, but they have a different appearance compared to Enterococcus.

Then the word saline which is used at 6.5% NaCl growth to test between Enterococcus spp and S. bovis. This is all not factoring in CHROMagar. I'll read on it further.

The organism in question is gram negative.

Yersinia enterolitica

 3 years ago  

Nope.

Yersinia pestis

Am I even getting close?

 3 years ago  

No. Colder.

Think waterborne.

Ok, before even coming up with Yersinia enterolitica, there was Aeromonas hydrophila but stool cultures and landlocked buzzwords made me not mention it first not being a common uropathogen.