KROK 1 2014 – Question 96 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A 55-year-old patient with a characteristic rash, fever, dizziness has been admitted to a hospital. He has been provisionally diagnosed with typhus. No similar cases have been reported. In his youth (15 years old) the patient suffered typhus in a boarding school. What disease is it?
- A. Cholera
- B. Measles
- C. Typhoid fever
- D. Brill’s disease
- E. Rubella
Hint
Consider how a typhus-like illness can appear again after decades in a person who has had no contact with other patients.
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