A Patient Presents with a Cough and Fever

question 1

Multiple Choice

A patient presents with a cough and fever. The provider auscultates rales in both lungs that do not clear with cough. The patient reports having a headache and sore throat prior to the onset of coughing. A chest radiograph shows patchy, nonhomogeneous infiltrates. Based on these findings, which organism is the most likely cause of this patient's pneumonia?

• A) A virus
• B) Mycoplasma
• C) S. pneumoniae
• D) Tuberculosis

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