A patient presents with rapid onset severe respiratory symptoms. Chest radiographs show a hemorrhagic lymphadenitis. The isolation of chains of fairly large, aerobic Gram-positive rods, some of which have started to sporulate from a patient with this resentation, should raise a major concern of which organism? (You should be able to answer this question from the genus alone, although a question might also mention that it was nonmotile.)
A) Actinomyces israelii B) Bacillus anthracis C) Campylobacter jejuni D) Clostridium perfringens E) Haemophilus influenzae