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General Internal Medicine
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Infectious Disease
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Pulmonology
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Pulmonary Infections
Would you treat a sputum culture positive for Aspergillus niger despite an atypical CT chest and a negative serum galactomannan in an immunosuppressed patient who is too high risk for bronchoscopy?
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