A 35-year-old man from rural Maharashtra presents with fever, productive cough, and pleuritic chest pain for 5 days. Chest X-ray shows left lower lobe consolidation. Blood culture grows a gram-positive coccus in pairs (lancet-shaped). Which feature best distinguishes this organism from Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus) as the causative agent?

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