Question 460 · LEK · AIDS
Select the suspected diagnosis in a 34-year-old female patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection detected in 2012 who for the past 3-4 weeks has had a dry cough, frequent sensation of cold and chills:
- A. Klebsiella pneumoniae infection.
- B. pneumocystosis.
- C. chronic bronchitis.
- D. Staphylococcus aureus infection.
- E. Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
Hint
Consider the classic opportunistic pneumonia in HIV with a subacute course over several weeks, dry cough and fever.
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