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One Week Postdelivery, an Infant Boy Becomes Extremely Irritable and Continuously

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One week postdelivery, an infant boy becomes extremely irritable and continuously rubs his right eye, which contains a mucopurulent exudate. An examination of the eye shows papillae on the conjunctiva. No bacteria are seen in the exudate. The most likely causative infectious agent is


A) Candida albicans
B) Chlamydophila trachomatis
C) Cytomegalovirus
D) Herpes simplex virus

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