Recurrent urinary tract infection: Laboratory Identification

Question

Illustrated in this photograph is a quadrant plate containing brain heart infusion agar plate supplemented with 6 ug/ml of vancomycin. The right upper quadrant was inoculated with the test strain of Enterococcus faecium. The presence of growth in the inoculated quadrant indicates resistance to vancomycin.

Select true or false

True

False

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