A one-year-old presents to the physician with a high fever and anxious behavior. The child is not coughing and the mother states that the illness progressed very rapidly. The physician orders a culture of the respiratory tract and Haemophilus influenza type b is isolated. Which of the following diseases has the patient contracted?
A) influenza
B) croup
C) pneumonia
D) epiglottis
D
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