Young man with necrotizing soft tissue infection
Blood culture Gram Stain
Describe the morphology and your differential. What additional confirmatory tests would you order?
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Answer: Gram-positive cocci and Gram-negative rods
Streptococcus pyogenes and Proteus mirabilis, detected by direct blood PCR and growth in culture.