Your Patient Has Just Returned from a 6-Month Missionary Trip

question 7

Multiple Choice

Your patient has just returned from a 6-month missionary trip to Southeast Asia. He reports unremitting cough, hemoptysis, and an unintentional weight loss of 10 pounds over the last month. These symptoms should prompt the clinician to suspect:

• A) Legionnaires' disease
• B) Malaria
• C) Tuberculosis
• D) Pneumonia

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