KROK 1 2013 – Question 154 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A patient who has recently come from an endemic area presents with elevated body temperature, headache, chills, malaise, that is with the symptoms which are typical for a common cold. What laboratory tests are necessary to confirm or to refute the diagnosis of malaria?
- A. Study of cerebrospinal fluid
- B. Microscopy of blood smears
- C. Microscopy of bone marrow punctate
- D. Study of lymph node punctate
- E. Urinalysis
Hint
Think about which cells the malaria parasite infects during its asexual cycle, and which readily collected sample would let you see them directly.
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