KROK 1 2012 – Question 134 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
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. Dysentery
- C. Typhoid fever
- D. Yersiniosis
- E. Salmonellosis
Hint
Match the clinical course and the sigmoid and rectal pattern of the diphtheritic lesions with the infection caused by the organism that was cultured.
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