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A 13-year-old girl who returned a few days ago from a school camping trip in North Carolina is home ill from school. She tells her parents that she has a headache and the chills. Over the next few days, she develops a rash that begins on her palms and soles, but spreads inward to her wrists and ankles and then to her trunk. Her worsening condition leads her parents to take her to the emergency department, where a blood test reveals antibodies that react with the Proteus antigen. This patient is most likely infected with which of the following?
(A) Borrelia burgdorferi
(B) Coxiella burnetti
(C) Coxsackievirus A
(D) Rickettsia rickettsii
(E) Rickettsia typhi
(F) Treponema pallidum
A 13-year-old girl who returned a few days ago from a school camping trip in North Carolina is home ill from school. She tells her parents that she has a headache and the chills. Over the next few days, she develops a rash that begins on her palms and soles, but spreads inward to her wrists and ankles and then to her trunk. Her worsening condition leads her parents to take her to the emergency department, where a blood test reveals antibodies that react with the Proteus antigen. This patient is most likely infected with which of the following?
(A) Borrelia burgdorferi
(B) Coxiella burnetti
(C) Coxsackievirus A
(D) Rickettsia rickettsii
(E) Rickettsia typhi
(F) Treponema pallidum
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