KROK 1 Stomatology 2013 – Question 110 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 71-year-old man had been presenting with diarrhea for 10 days. The feces had admixtures of blood and mucus. He was delivered to a hospital in grave condition and died 2 days later. Autopsy of the body revealed the following: diphtheritic colitis with multiple irregularly-shaped ulcers of different depth in both sigmoid colon and rectum. Bacteriological analysis revealed Shigella. What was the main disease?
- A. Nonspecific ulcerous colitis
- B. Typhoid fever
- C. Dysentery
- D. Salmonellosis
- E. Yersiniosis
Hint
Combine the distal colon localisation of fibrinous (diphtheritic) inflammation with the bacterium isolated.
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