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A 64-year-old man arrived at the clinic with a severely painful rash and skin eruptions that are localized entirely on one side of his body, closely following the dermatome level of spinal nerve C7. The patient was diagnosed with herpes zoster virus. In what structure has the virus most likely proliferated to cause the patient’s current condition?

AThe sympathetic chain
BThe dorsal root ganglion of the C7 spinal nerve
CThe lateral horn of the C7 spinal cord segment
DThe posterior cutaneous branch of the dorsal primary ramus of C7
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