A patient admitted to an ICU is on central venous line for the past one week.He is on Ceftazimide and Amikacin.After 7 days of antibiotics, he develops a spike of fever and his blood culture is positive for gram positive cocci in chains, which are catalase negative.Following this V ancomycin was started but the culture remained positive for the same organism causing infection is -

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Coagulase negative staphylococci

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Enterococci faecalis

1.	A patient admitted to an ICU is on central venous line for the past one week.He is on Ceftazimide and Amikacin.After 7 days of antibiotics, he develops a spike of fever and his blood culture is positive for gram positive cocci in chains, which are catalase negative.Following this V ancomycin was started but the culture remained positive for the same organism causing infection is -
A.	Staphylococcus aureus
B.	Viridans streptococci
C.	Enterococci faecalis
D.	Coagulase negative staphylococci
Answer» D. Coagulase negative staphylococci

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