Mike is a 56 y/o male who lives in an abandoned building. With about 40 other street people. He comes to the clinic with a social worker who describes his symptoms as: a cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, fever and tachypnea. Your physical exam notes that he has some consolidation in the lower lobes with an audible friction rub. Given Mike's diagnosis the most likely causative agent is: O Strep pneumonia O Pneumococcal pneumonia O Mycoplasma pneumonia O Moraxella catarrhalis
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