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Your patient is a 19-year-old female college student complaining of a low-grade fever, extremely sore throat, tenderness of the cervical lymph nodes, and extreme fatigue. Examination reveals warm, moist, flushed skin. Heart rate = 88, respirations = 12, and blood pressure = 118/78. There is tenderness to palpation of the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. Which of the following is most likely?
 
  A) Bacterial meningitis
  B) Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
  C) Mononucleosis
  D) Fifth disease

Question 2

A 23-year-old female patient is complaining of lower abdominal and genital pain. Upon examination you find a white, curdlike vaginal discharge. This is most typical of:
 
  A) Gardnerella.
  B) gonorrhea.
  C) candidiasis.
  D) herpes simplex.


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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

C



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