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In an ICU patient with necrotizing pneumonia who has persistent leukocytosis despite adequate antibiotic coverage and an X-ray (see attached) suggestive of empyema, when do you get a computed tomography scan of the chest or therapeutically drain it?

- submitted by Nancy Huh

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If neutropenia is a risk factor for aspergillosis, why do people with HIV not have an increased incidence of the disease?

- submitted by J.P. Yu