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A 54-year-old truck driver in Oklahoma collides with a deer on the highway. He takes the deer home and butchers it. Five days later, he develops fever, non-productive cough, shortness of breath, and generalized lymphadenopathy. No skin lesions are noted. What is the most likely diagnosis?
A. Anthrax
B. Leptospirosis
C. Pasteurella multocida infection
D. Plague
E. Tularemia
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| general malaise
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| ts97
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agree, E
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answer??
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| mjl1717
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it has to be Tularemia.
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| tolito
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i will choose tularemia (pneumonic) cos it is transmitted via inhalation while eviscerating infected animals (usu rabbit!!). but what about the lumph nodes and absence of a skin lesion????
plague is a close differential but that is from handling rodents.
can someone clarify please??
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