Q1. A 22-year-old patient with known AIDS presents with a 7 day history of fever, dry cough, and dyspnea. He has also been anorexic with general malaise for sometime. The physical reveals an emaciated male in mild respiratory distress with RR of 28 and pulse of 93% on room air. He is not on HAART and his last Mantoux test was negative. His CXR is shown. Based on this short history, the most likely diagnosis is:
a. Tuberculosis
b. Histoplasmosis
c. Syphilis
d. Pneumocystis jiroveci
e. Klebsiella
f. Lymphoma
g. Toxoplasma
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