KROK 1 2014 – Question 150 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A patient who has recently arrived 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 prove or to disprove the diagnosis of malaria?
- A. Urinalysis
- B. Study of lymph node punctate
- C. Study of cerebrospinal fluid
- D. Microscopy of bone marrow punctate
- E. Microscopy of blood smears
Hint
Ask which cells the parasite occupies when it causes the fever attacks, and what simple, minimally invasive specimen would let you see it directly.
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