The elderly patient with moderate Alzheimer’s disease was brought to the emergency department (ED) for rapidly worsening mental status, fever, and anorexia over the last 24 hours. Portable chest x-ray shows a consolidation in the left lower lobe.Which diagnosis is most accurate?
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