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Figure 2: Panel a: Obligate aerobe growth on MacConkey Agar plate showing dry and wrinkled non-lactose fermenting colonies with pinkish color (oxidation of lactose) after 24 hours of incubation. Panel b: Gram staining of the pus smear showing classical bipolar staining of Burkholderia psuedomallei (solid black arrow)

Figure 2: Panel a: Obligate aerobe growth on MacConkey Agar plate showing dry and wrinkled non-lactose fermenting colonies with pinkish color (oxidation of lactose) after 24 hours of incubation. Panel b: Gram staining of the pus smear showing classical bipolar staining of <i>Burkholderia psuedomallei </i>(solid black arrow)