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Question :
Posted On : 17 Apr 2022
4-month baby with a fever, vesiculobullous necrotic extensive skin lesion appeared after penicillin group drug exposure healed with withdrawal again reappeared with exposure, cough, and tachypnea cxr showing viral per typical pneumonia, lab counts showing thrombocytosis, very high total counts showing clinical improvement after treating Linezolid and Vancomycin but cxr findings -no change with persistently elevated counts and thrombocytosis after one-month treatment.
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Expert Answer :
Rule out atypical pneumonia such as mycoplasma or pertussis.
Answer Discussion :
C
Cristal Ann Laquindanum-Tan
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staph pneumonia
2 years ago
T
Tichaenzana Maenzanise
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Infectious mononucleosis
2 years ago
F
FATHIYA SAID
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Infectios mononucleosis
2 years ago
A
abdalatif ragab
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Kswaski disease is a probable diagnosis.
2 years ago
B
Badr Elshamy
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infectious mononuvleosis
2 years ago




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