QUESTION NO- 1

Your patient is a 3 year old girl with fever and pain in her right ear. On physical examination, the ear drum is found to be perforated and a bloody exudate is seen. A gram stain of the exudate reveals gram-positive diplococci.
Of the following, which one is the MOST likely cause?

a) streptococcus pyogenes
b) staphylococcus aureus
c) corynebacterium diptheriae
d) streptococcus pneumoniae


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