PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION REGARDING THE FOLLOWING POST: You are doing a rotation in the hospital's clinical laboratory. A sample of cloudy cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a suspected meningitis case arrives and you are told to Gram stain it, and then plate it on blood agar and chocolate agar. In the Gram stain, you find gram-negative rods of varying sizes and morphologies. You also find a lot of bacteria inside phagocytic cells. They are not diplococci. Colonies grow on both of agar plates you inoculated. Later, the charge nurse tells you that the patient, a 3-year-old girl, has not received any childhood vaccinations. 1. What do you wish to further explore in the patient’s history? 2. What is the most likely diagnosis, and what is the etiology (causative agent)? Why was the child's unvaccinated status helpful in diagnosis? What other types of infection can this organism cause in children? 3. What is the appropriate treatment for this disease? 4. Is this condition communicable? If so, are you required to notify any other individuals? 6. Are there any natural defenses in the body that help to prevent this type of infection?

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PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION REGARDING THE FOLLOWING POST:

You are doing a rotation in the hospital's clinical laboratory. A sample of cloudy cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a suspected meningitis case arrives and you are told to Gram stain it, and then plate it on blood agar and chocolate agar. In the Gram stain, you find gram-negative rods of varying sizes and morphologies. You also find a lot of bacteria inside phagocytic cells. They are not diplococci. Colonies grow on both of agar plates you inoculated.

Later, the charge nurse tells you that the patient, a 3-year-old girl, has not received any childhood vaccinations.

1. What do you wish to further explore in the patient’s history?

2. What is the most likely diagnosis, and what is the etiology (causative agent)? Why was the child's unvaccinated status helpful in diagnosis? What other types of infection can this organism cause in children?

3. What is the appropriate treatment for this disease?

4. Is this condition communicable? If so, are you required to notify any other individuals?

6. Are there any natural defenses in the body that help to prevent this type of infection?

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