KROK 1 2014 – Question 1 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
The infectious diseases department of a hospital admitted a patient with nausea, liquid stool with mucus and blood streaks, fever, weakness. Dysentery was suspected. What method of laboratory diagnostics should be applied to confirm the diagnosis?
- A. Serological
- B. Mycological
- C. Protozoological
- D. Microscopic
- E. Bacteriological
Hint
Decide what kind of causative agent is most likely in bloody, mucoid diarrhoea with fever, then choose the approach that proves its presence directly rather than indirectly.
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