A 50-year-old man who lives in Indiana comes to the physician because of a 1-month history of fever and nonproductive cough. He is a construction worker. His temperature is 38.4 C (101.1F), 84/min, respirations 14/min, and blood pressure is 110/70 mm Hg. Scattered crackles are heard over all lung fields. Bilateral interstitial infiltrates is seen on CXR. A photomicrograph of a specimen obtained via transbronchial biopsy is shown. The most likely causal organism in this patient has a cell wall composed of which of the following? A) N-Acetylglucosamine-N-acetylmuramic acid B) Cellulose C) Glucans D) Polyglutamic acid E) Teichoic acid
A 50-year-old man who lives in Indiana comes to the physician because of a 1-month history of fever and nonproductive cough. He is a construction worker. His temperature is 38.4 C (101.1F), 84/min, respirations 14/min, and blood pressure is 110/70 mm Hg. Scattered crackles are heard over all lung fields. Bilateral interstitial infiltrates is seen on CXR. A photomicrograph of a specimen obtained via transbronchial biopsy is shown. The most likely causal organism in this patient has a cell wall composed of which of the following?
A) N-Acetylglucosamine-N-acetylmuramic acid
B) Cellulose
C) Glucans
D) Polyglutamic acid
E) Teichoic acid
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I believe this is wrong. Shouldn't this be Glucans as the answer?
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