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A 50-year-old male who is a known alcoholic is brought to the emergency department by police. He complains of a productive cough with thick, bloody sputum. Vitals reveal a temperature of 38°C (100.4 °F). Physical examination reveals dullness to percussion, increased tactile fremitus and decreased breath sounds over the right lung fields. A chest radiograph is obtained which reveals consolidation in the right upper lobe. The most likely cause of these findings is a
Options
- Agram-negative oxidase-negative bacillus
- Bgram-positive oxidase-positive bacillus
- Cgram-negative pleomorphic bacillus
- Dgram-positive catalase-negative coccus
- Egram-positive catalase-positive coccus
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