Question 4

(Multiple Choice)

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

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