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Microbiology General 1216a4e1

A patient admitted to an ICU is on central venous line for the last one week. He is on Ceftazidime and amikacin. After 7 days of antibiotics he develops a spike of fever and his blood culture is positive for gram positive cocci in chains which are catalase - negative. Following this vancomycin was started but the culture remained positive for same organism even after 2 weeks of therapy. The most likely organism causing infection is :

A
Staphylococci aureus
B
Viridans streptococci
C
Enterococcus faecalis
D
Coagulase negative staphylococcus
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