A healthy former football player has an onset of symptoms with fever and cellulitis in the right knee. The infection is resistant to oral antibiotics. He then develops osteomyelitis of the right knee. If untreated the infection could result in:
A) Severe neutropenia
B) Decrease white blood cells
C) Normal creatinine clearance
D) A fungal infection
Ans: A
Feedback: Patients with phagocytic cell disorders may develop severe neutropenia, in which the white blood cell count increases and the creatinine clearance decreases. The patient may be prone to a fungal infection but will not present as cellulitis and osteomyelitis.
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