Low-grade Fever in Surgery — 35yo Man | General Surgery | SMLE Q#17196
SMLE Question #17196
Surgery
General Surgery
Objective: OBJ-TRACH-EMERG-01
Last updated: February 2026
A 35-year-old man attends the surgical outpatient clinic 3 weeks after an open appendectomy. For 4 days, he has had increasing pain, erythema, induration, and purulent discharge from the right lower quadrant incision, with low-grade fever and malaise. Examination shows localized tenderness around the incision without generalized abdominal tenderness. Which of the following best describes the most likely group of organisms involved in this wound infection?
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