Multiple Choice
An 80-year-old woman is admitted from a nursing home where she has been sick with a cough and fever for two days.She is coughing up thick,rust-colored sputum.The physician prescribed penicillin,but she is not getting any better.What is her most probable diagnosis?
A) Viral pneumonia
B) Pneumococcal pneumonia with penicillin-resistant organism
C) Enterococcal pneumonia with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)
D) S. agalactiae infection
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