07-07-2006, 06:57 AM
a 35 yr old man who takes street drugs intravenously develops fever,cough and hemoptysis.X-ray film of the chest shows bilateral infiltrates.Echocardiogram discloses a 1 cm mass that is attached to the attached to the tricuspid valve.Blood culture grows yeast.The most likely causal organism is
A)Aspergillus
B)Candida
C)crptococcus
D)Histoplasma
E)Mucor species
A)Aspergillus
B)Candida
C)crptococcus
D)Histoplasma
E)Mucor species