7. The following three questions are related to this patient scenario: A 65-year-old male HIV patient is using continuous intravenous (IV) antibiotic infusion to manage a kidney infection and he develops a
103° F fever. Cultures of blood, the IV needle tip, and the insertion site revealed large round cells
that reproduced by budding.
a. What is your preliminary identification of the infecting organism?
b. How might the antibiotic treatment have affected this patient?
C
What do the findings suggest about the cause of the fever?