Right Hand Pain in Medicine / Internal Medicine — 32yo Man | Infectious Diseases | SMLE Q#11105
SMLE Question #11105
Medicine / Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Objective: OBJ-349
Last updated: February 2026
A 32-year-old man presents with right hand pain and redness 3 days after cutting his finger with a kitchen knife. Over the past 24 hours, he developed tender red streaks extending toward the distal forearm with mild fever and malaise. Examination shows a small healing finger laceration with surrounding erythema, linear tender erythematous streaks along the hand and distal forearm, and mildly enlarged, tender regional lymph nodes. Which organism is the most likely cause of this acute lymphangitis?
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