KROK 1 2011 – Question 113 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A patient working at a pig farm complains about paroxysmal abdominal pain, liquid feces with admixtures of mucus and blood, headache, weakness, fever. Examination of large intestine revealed ulcers from 1 mm up to several cm large, feces contained oval unicellular organisms with cilia. What disease should be suspected?
- A. Lambliasis
- B. Toxoplasmosis
- C. Amebiasis
- D. Balantidiasis
- E. Trichomoniasis
Hint
Weigh the patient's exposure to animals together with the organism's shape and means of locomotion in the stool against the usual reservoir of each parasite.
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