There is a 22-years old female patient who has flu-like symt | Figure 1

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There is a 22-years old female patient who has flu-like symptoms for the last 2 months. She was symptomatically treated by some doctors and finally the "flu" had gone. Recently she started coughing vesicles like this (with white and viscous liquid inside) 1 or 2 times per day.

She is in veterinary medicine school and is working with animals (horses, cows, sheep, goats, rats). As pets, she has a hedgehog and two chinchillas.

I was thinking about a parasite infection. Some ideas regarding the diagnosis?

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