A patient presents to his physician with respiratory distress, chills, malaise, and headache. A thorough history revealed that the patient is a turkey farmer

He remarked that he had received a shipment of turkeys last week to sell for the upcoming holidays. A complement fixation test identified the source of his infection. The causative agent is probably
A) Chlamydophilia pneumoniae. B) Coxiella burnetii.
C) Chlamydophila psittaci. D) respiratory syncytial virus.


C

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