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A 19 year old college student presents to the student health clinic complaining of weakness, malaise, and a chronic cough. He has a fever of 100 degrees F and a dry cough; no sputum can be obtained for laboratory analysis, so a bronchial lavage is performed and the washings are submitted to the laboratory. The laboratory repos that the organism is “slow-growing.”Serodiagnosis reveals Strep MG agglutinins in the patient’s serum. Which of the following organisms is the most likely cause of this student’s illness?

AKlebsiella pneumoniae
BMycoplasma pneumoniae
CParainfluenza virus
DRespiratory syncytial virus
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