HY USMLE Q #954 – Pathology

A 9-year-old boy is brought to the physician for a 2-day history of worsening shortness of breath and dry cough. Temperature is 101 F. He had a left renal transplant performed one year ago for chronic pyelonephritis secondary to recalcitrant vesicoureteral reflux. A lung biopsy is shown.

Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?

  Bacterium
  DNA virus
  Fungus
  Malignancy
 RNA virus