A 30-year-old male presents to the emergency room with high fever and malaise, which he reports that is began 4 days ago progressively worse each day. Presumptive diagnosis of acute bacterial endocarditis showed following curve of the organism growing in an nutrient medium at 35 degrees with both O2 and added CO2 present. In which of the following growth phases would the organism most likely be ressistant to beta-lactam antibiotics?

 

 

a) lag phase

b) log phase

c) stationary phase

d) death phase

Stationary Dead Log Time Lag No. of bacterial cells (Log)