Question 149 · LEK · AIDS
A 30-year-old male patient came to the ER because of fever 38 °C, pharyngitis, skin rash and generalized lymph node enlargement with lymphopenia. Numerous high risk sexual contacts and syphilis in his medical history. The diagnostic procedures should proceed towards:
- A. streptococcal angina.
- B. recurrent syphilis.
- C. mononucleosis syndrome in the course of acute retroviral infection.
- D. acute lymphocytic leukemia.
- E. Herpes infection.
Hint
Combine a mononucleosis-like illness with a high-risk sexual history and think of the earliest stage of a sexually transmitted retrovirus.
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