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case_images: Direct Albert stain from the throat swab showing abundant green coloured bacilli with metachromatic granules arranged in cuneiform pattern.
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case_images: Albert stain and culture. Albert stain revealed plenty of green coloured bacilli with metachromatic granules studded along the bacilli arranged in cuneiform pattern (Fig. 1).
case_images: Dry, rough, white, nonhaemolytic colonies with irregular margins observed on the blood agar plates.
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case_images: Following overnight incubation of the culture plates, dry, rough, white, nonhaemolytic colonies with irregular margins were observed on the blood agar (Fig. 2).
case_images: Black, dry, rough, colonies with irregular margins observed on the potassium tellurite agar.
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case_images: Greyish black, dry, rough, colonies with irregular margins were seen on the potassium tellurite agar, which on further incubation of up to 48 h turned to black coloured colonies (Fig. 3).