KROK 1 2012 – 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. Blood tellurite agar
- B. Endo’s agar
- C. Sabouraud’s agar
- D. Ploskyrev’s agar
- E. Levenshtein-Yessen agar
Hint
Choose the medium from the growth requirements of the organism and the visible change its colonies produce, remembering that the specimen comes from the throat.
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