clar697
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A 66-year-old man is undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia has a 3-dau history of progressive fever, headache, nausea, and deterioration of mental activity. Analysis os CSF shows lymphocytic pleocytosis, a normal glucose concentration, and a slightly increased protein concentration. The causal agent is presumptively identified bu a positive India ink test and later confirmed with culture. Which of the following is a major virulence factor of the infecting organism producing this disease?
A) Antigenic variation
B) Exotoxin
C) Immunoglobulin protease
D) Leukicidin
E) Polysaccharide capsule
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| jorgefhoyos
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Agent is Cryptococcus. So I would say the capsule.
My answer would be E.
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| Ig F
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ofcourse E.....organism is Cryptococcun neoformans...so polysaccharide capsule..
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| Alee
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It surely is cryptococus n its v fac is a capsule
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