Calculate the MCHC for a patient with the following CBC:•   …

Calculate the MCHC for a patient with the following CBC:•       WBC     9.3 x109/L•       RBC       5.11 x1012/L•       HGB      9.6 g/dL•       HCT      31.4%•       PLT        351 x109/L

A 79-year-old man had surgery to replace an arthritic joint…

A 79-year-old man had surgery to replace an arthritic joint with a prosthetic joint.After several weeks, he complained of low-grade fevers and pain in the joint. Fluid was aspirated from the knee and inoculated into both aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles. The anaerobic blood culture bottle turned positive at 48 hours with a gram-positive cocci. The aerobic bottle remained negative. The most likely identification of this isolate is: