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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2010

A 22-year-old patient is a clerk. His working day runs in a conditioned room. In summer he was taken by an acute disease with the following symptoms: fever, dyspnea, dry cough, pleural pain, myalgia, arthralgia. Objectively: moist rales on the right, pleural friction rub. X-ray picture showed infiltration of the inferior lobe. In blood: WBC - 11 × 109/l, stab neutrophils - 6%, segmented neutrophils - 70%, lymphocytes - 8%, ESR - 42 mm/h. What is the ethiological factor pneumonia?

Answer options

  1. Staphylococcus
  2. Mycoplasm
  3. Streptococcus
  4. Pneumococcus
  5. Legionella
Correct answer

Legionella

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