A tracheal aspirate, obtained from a comatose patient on a ventilator, grew an oxidase-positive non-lactose fermenter that produced a distinctive odor of sliced apples

It proved to be:
Motile: positive
Nitrate: red after addition of reagents A, B, and zinc
OF medium:
open tubes: glucose: blue, maltose: blue, lactose: blue, sucrose: blue
closed tubes: glucose: green, maltose: green, lactose: green, sucrose: green
This organism is
A) Acinetobacter baumannii. B) Elizabethkingia meningosepticum.
C) Alcaligenes faecalis. D) Moraxella nonliquefaciens.

C

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