Figure 6.
Gram stain of a sputum sample showing Streptococcus pneumoniae as gram-positive diplococci (From Werno AM, Murdoch DR. Medical microbiology: laboratory diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal disease. Clin Infect Dis 2008;46:926–32.)
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