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NBME 17 Answers ↦

nbme17/Block 2/Question#19 (4.1 difficulty score)
A 21-year-old man is brought to the emergency ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae🔍
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submitted by icedcoffeeislyfe(24),

Asplenic and sickle cell pts are susceptible to encapsulated organisms such as strep pneumo.

Knight is holding the sickle in the sketchy!

waitingonprometric  Other bacteria that splenectomy patients are at risk for are Hemophilus influenza and Neisseria meningitidis +1  



one does not simply “walk into mordor”