A 22-Year-Old Man with Fever and Joint Pain Is Found

question 320

Multiple Choice

A 22-year-old man with fever and joint pain is found to have atypical lymphocytes on his blood smear.  Further evaluation shows that his condition is caused by an enveloped virus containing partially double-stranded circular DNA.  An enzyme packed in its virion has RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase activity.  This patient is most likely infected with which of the following viruses?

• A)Coxsackie virus
• B)Cytomegalovirus
• C)Epstein-Barr virus
• D)Hepatitis B virus
• E)Human immunodeficiency virus
• F)Parvovirus B19

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