Your patient has a rash, a fever, and a very high white blood cell count. Blood specimens are taken, put into sterile culture bottles, and sent down to the microbiology lab for incubation and analysis. Select the statement that best reflects why microbial analysis of blood is an important step in this patient diagnosis: SP Select one or more: a. A lack of microbes in the blood means that the patient's health is critical
b. minimal microbial growth in the blood sample is normal and should be ignored
c. Blood culture analysis would not provide any useful information to the diagnostic team
d. Blood specimen are often obtain through poor aseptic technique by the healthcare worker
e. microbial growth in the blood sample may possibly indicate sepsis in the patient