KROK 1 2011 – Question 199 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A 4-year-old child presents with general weakness, sore throat and deglutitive problem. After his examination a doctor suspected diphtheria and sent the material to the bacteriological laboratory. In order to determine the diphtheria causative agent the material should be inoculated into the following differential diagnostic medium:
- A. Levenshtein-Yessen agar
- B. Sabouraud’s agar
- C. Blood tellurite agar
- D. Endo’s agar
- E. Ploskyrev’s agar
Hint
Match the suspected pathogen's biology with the medium: you need one that selects for it and lets its colonies be recognised among throat flora.
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