1st April 2022

An 8-year-old child has been suffering from productive cough and fever (39-40 °C) for a couple of days

An 8-year-old child has been suffering from productive cough and fever (39-40 °C) for a couple of days. Since he has also developed some difficulty in breathing, his mother decides to take him to A&E. His vital parameters are seen to be abnormal: the child is tachycardic, tachypnoeic, pulse oximetry is 94%, and the doctor hears diffusely reduced lung sounds at auscultation. The child is sent for a CXR which comes back showing multiple nodular patchy opacities in both lungs, mostly seen at the lung bases. From which condition is the child most likely suffering?

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