KROK 1 2013 – Question 46 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A 50-year-old patient has been administered laevomycetin for the treatment of typhoid fever, but on the next day the patient’s condition worsened, the temperature rose to 39.6°C. The deterioration of the patient’s condition can be explained by:
- A. Insensitivity of the pathogen to laevomycetin
- B. Re-infection
- C. Effects of endotoxins of the causative agent
- D. Secondary infection
- E. Allergic reaction
Hint
Consider what dying bacteria release into the bloodstream when an antibiotic destroys many of them within hours, and how that could drive fever.
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