Gram Draining Report

After obtaining my unknown organism the first thing I needed to do to get started was to do a gram stain. This would help me decide which kind of further testing would need to be done in order to help identify the organism that is causing gastrointestinal distress in Brown County. After doing a gram stain test on my unknown, I found that it was a gram negative organism. This prompted me to do some tests that are specifically for gram negative organisms. When I looked under the microscope I seen some rod shaped bacteria. So what is this organism and is it causing the reported cases of GI distress? The gram stain I did showed a pink organism which told me that it was gram negative. I then continued with some tests that were specifically for gram negative bacteria. I did an OF glucose test, a Citrate test, SIM test which told me the H2S, Indole and motility results and also a urease test. After letting my tests incubate I found that there were negative results for the H2S, Indole and urease tests and positive …show more content…
The symptoms reported were vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and severe cramping which is a gastrointestinal infection. It was also mentioned that raw bean sprouts were possibly the culprit for this and people were warned not to consume them. Although it can cause GI distress in some as mentioned earlier, Enterobacter aerogenes is a hospital acquired infection. This would mean that all the cases that were reported would have had to have been associated with a recent hospital stay. The main ways to acquire this in the hospital is when you are in the hospital a long period of time, have a catheter, have a surgical procedure or even antibiotic use in the past (bioquell). Because of the fact that the reports don`t specify that the cases were from eating raw bean sprouts while staying in the hospital tells me that this isn`t the disease that caused the outbreak in Brown