A 6-year-old unvaccinated child from rural India presents with acute epiglottitis (stridor, drooling, dysphagia). Blood culture grows a gram-negative coccobacillus requiring X and V factors. Which clinical feature would be MOST likely if the isolate were non-typeable H. influenzae (NTHi) instead of Hib?

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