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A 37 year old man is admitted to the hospital with shoness of breath, cyanosis, and fever. Chest x-ray films reveal consolidation of the right lower lobe with relative sparing of the remaining lobes.A clinical diagnosis of lobar pneumonia is made and suppoed by the results of sputum cultures. Which of the following is the genus of the bacterium most likely to be isolated from this patient's sputum?

A
Haemophilus
B
Klebsiella
C
Streptococcus, alpha-hemolytic
D
Streptococcus, beta-hemolytic

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