Assessing client presenting with productive cough

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The nurse is assessing a client presenting with a productive cough, fever, chills, dyspnea, tachypnea, and chest pain that is worse with deep inspiration. Lung auscultation reveals bilateral crackles in the lower lobes. The client's chest x-ray (CXR) reveals bilateral pulmonary infiltrates in the lower lobes. Which condition would the nurse suspect?

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