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A 53 year old woman with diarrhea and lower abdominal pain of 3 days duration comes to her physician after failing to relieve her symptoms with various home remedies. She denies any recent travel and states that there is blood and pus in her stool. Fecal cultures yield several flagellated, curved, oxidase positive, gram negative rods. The organism isolated is most likely ?

ACampylobacter jejuni
BEscherichia coli
CSalmonella
DShigella
Microbiology
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