A 60-year-old man with a chronic cough, bloody sputum, and marked weight loss is diagnosed as having tuberculosis. A "serpentine-like" colonial morphology is noted on Lowenstein-Jensen agar. This latter finding is caused by which of the following factors
Virulence of the organism is correlated with cord factor (trehalose dimycolate).
A large "slimy" capsule
Wax D
Coagulase
Cord factor
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