A 55-year-old female patient presents at the clinic with fever, cough, shortness of breath, and persistent hiccups. She also reports sharp chest pain that worsens when she coughs. You suspect she may be suffering from a pleural effusion and diagnostic testing reveals that the patient has an infection within the pleural space. Based on this information, from which type of pleural effusion is the patient suffering?

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A 55-year-old female patient presents at the clinic with fever, cough, shortness of breath, and persistent hiccups. She also reports sharp chest pain that worsens when she coughs. You suspect she may be suffering from a pleural effusion and diagnostic testing reveals that the patient has an infection within the pleural space. Based on this information, from which type of pleural effusion is the patient suffering?