You are an Army physician deployed into Central Africa. A 30 year old, male soldier comes into the clinic with a chronic

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You are an Army physician deployed into Central Africa. A 30year old, male soldier comes into the clinic with a chronic,cutaneous lesion on the dorsal surface of his neck. The lesion isseverely inflamed, with erythema and edema around the border of thelesion with a dark black central scab. Based on the clinicalpresentation, you do a gram stain of an impression smear and findGram positive bacilli. Your presumptive diagnosis would be:
a.
Bacillus anthracis
b.
Borrelia burgdorferi
c.
Bacillus cereus
d.
Bacteriodes fragilis
e.
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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