A 15-year-old dirt-bike rider visiting southern California the first time has developed pneumonia. The causative organism has environmental form that consists of hyphae that break up into arthroconidia, which become airborne. What is the agent?
A) Aspergillus fumigatus B) Blastomyces dermatitidis C) Coccidioides immitis D) Histoplasma capsulatum E) Sporothrix schenckii