MICROBIOLOGY N* Q-12

[Roxanita]

A 5-year-old boy is brought to the physician's office because of pharyngitis. Culture of a swab from the throat grows a β-hemolytic gram-positive coccus in chains. Which of the following components of the microbe is responsible for this organism's shape?

A) Glycoprotein

B) Lipopolysaccharide

C) Lipoteichoic acid

D) Peptidoglycan

E) Polysaccharide

F) Teichoic acid

[crusher]

glycoprotein .peptidoglycan,outer cell wall