A patient is in the hospital with bacterial meningitis. Thedoctor needs to determine whether the patient has an infection withNeisseria meningitis or Haemophilus influenzae.
1. What is the problem (scenario) that you're asked tosolve?
2. What is your hypothesis for the solution to the problem? Whatorganism do you think caused the problem?
3. What are the experiments that are required to answer yourhypothesis? (The stains, biochemical, and media for each organismand the expected results)
4. What is your conclusion to the problem? Based on the expectedresults, what organism caused the problem?
