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Author: Robert W. Bauman Ph.D.
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Chapter 21, Problem 11MC
A cardiologist examines a patient with history of drug abuse and a recent tooth extraction and notes darkening under the fingernails. What should the diagnosis be?
- a. bacteremia
- b. malaria
- c. black plague
- d. endocarditis
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