An elderly male patient presented with fever, chest pain, and dry cough. Sputum culture showed growth on Charcoal Yeast Extract Medium. The organism associated will be
A. H. influenza
B. Moraxella catarrhalis
C. Legionella
D. Burkholderia cepacia
A. H. influenza
B. Moraxella catarrhalis
C. Legionella
D. Burkholderia cepacia
Ans. C. Legionella
Legionnaire’s diseases presents
with fever, nonproductive cough, dyspnea: if untreated progressive to
pneumonia. They grow on complex media such as buffered charcoal, yeast extract BYCE agar, with L cysteine
and antibiotics supplements with 5% C02, at pH 6.9, 35°C and 90% humidity.
