Problem:

A patient is in the hospital with bacterial meningitis. The doctor needs to determine whether the patient has an infection with Neisseria meningitis or Haemophilus influenzae.

Required:

Question 1: What is the problem (scenario) that you're asked to solve?

Question 2: What is your hypothesis for the solution to the problem? What organism do you think caused the problem?

Question 3: What are the experiments that are required to answer your hypothesis? (The stains, biochemical, and media for each organism and the expected results)

Question 4: What is your conclusion to the problem? Based on the expected results, what organism caused the problem?

Please read all the questions carefully and answer them.