A Graduate Student Returning from a Month-Long Fieldwork Experience in South

question 11

Multiple Choice

A graduate student returning from a month-long fieldwork experience in South America develops a dark nodular lesion on his left hand.Microscopic examination of the nodule reveals dark, coinlike inclusions.The following organism grows in culture.This organism is most likely:

• A)Cladosporium spp.
• B)Candida spp.
• C)Coccidioides immitis.
• D)Cryptococcus neoformans.

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