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Chest x ray of the patient, which was unremarkable.
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His chest radiograph was unremarkable (Fig. 1).
Gram stain from blood culture showing short gram positive bacilli.
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The gram stain smear from the culture plate showed short gram-positive bacilli (Fig. 2) and gram-positive bacilli with diphtheroid morphology (Fig. 3).