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A Noncompliant 70-Year-Old HIV-Positive Man with A CD4+CD4^+ Cell Count Of 40/mm340/mm^3

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A noncompliant 70-year-old HIV-positive man with a CD4+CD4^+ cell count of 40/mm340/mm^3 presents with a pulmonary infection caused by an organism that requires 4 weeks to grow on Lowenstein-Jensen medium. What is the best descriptor of the most likely causative agent?


A) Acid-fast organism
B) Dimorphic fungus
C) Filamentous fungus
D) Gram-positive coccus
E) Gram-negative coccus
F) Gram-negative rod

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