A 24-year-old man presented with a nonproductive cough, fever, and occasional shaking chills of one week's duration. he also had pleuritic left-sided chest pain on deep inspiration and a rash on his palms, soles, trunk, and mouth. His wife had been sick with "pleurisy" two weeks earlier; her symptoms had resolved with antibiotic therapy.

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