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An alcoholic vagrant known to your service presents with fever and cyanosis. In the emergency department the following radiog
What is the most likely etiological agent? Select one: a. Adenovirus b. Varicella c. Respiratory syncytial virus d. Klebsiell
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This radiograph of the patient presents lobar pneumonia to the patient. Lobar pneumonia affects large portion of the lobe of the lung in continuous manner. Most common cause of lobar pneumonia is Streptococcus pneunomiae. It is a Gram-positive bacterium which is responsible for community-acquired pneumonia. As the person is alcoholic, he must have acquired the infection through its circle, as the bacteria spreads through coughing and sneezing.

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