A patient has a mysterious respiratory illness. The patients nose and throat are swabbed and the sample is taken to a laboratory to determine if there is an infectious agent that can be grown and identified. The lab culture reveals that the illness is caused by a single-celled prokaryotic organism. What type of infection is the patient experiencing? Bacterial Viral Protozoan Fungal
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