A 34-year-old woman with a history of recent abortion presents with fever, chills, and abdominal pain. Blood cultures grow a gram-negative coccobacillus that requires special media and is a fastidious organism. Further testing shows the organism requires both factor X (hemin) and factor V (NAD). Which diagnosis is most likely?

  1. A)Neisseria gonorrhoeae disseminated infection
  2. B)Legionella pneumophila bacteremia
  3. C)Escherichia coli urosepsis
  4. D)Vibrio vulnificus wound infection
  5. E)Haemophilus influenzae sepsisGABARITO

Explicação

Haemophilus influenzae is a gram-negative coccobacillus requiring both factor X (hemin) and factor V (NAD) for growth—the defining characteristic. Post-abortion sepsis can result from H. influenzae infection ascending through the reproductive tract. Ver explicação completa e trilha adaptativa →

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