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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 staed but the culture remained positive for the same organism even after 2 weeks of therapy. The most likely organism causing infection is

A
Coagulase negative staphylococcus
B
Staphylococcus aureus
C
Streptococcus viridans
D
Enterococcus feaecium

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