A sputum culture grows gray, mucoid, stringy colonies on she…
A sputum culture grows gray, mucoid, stringy colonies on sheep blood. This isolate grows readily on MacConkey agar, and forms Mucoid, darkpink colonies. The colonies yield the following test results: Oxidase: Negative A/A on Kligler iron agar Citrate: Positive Indole: Negative ONPG: Positive VP: Positive