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Spinal fluid smear for the case patient.. Note: Photomicrograph of a Gram-stained spinal fluid showed gram-positive cocci (magnification; 1000x).
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Gram-staining of the spinal fluid revealed gram-positive cocci in pairs and chains indicating that the infective organism was probably S. pneumoniae (Figure 1).