KROK 1 2015 – Question 75 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A patient working at a pig farm complains of paroxysmal abdominal pain, liquid feces with mucus and blood, headache, weakness, fever. Examination of large intestine revealed ulcers from 1 mm up to several cm in diameter, feces contained oval unicellular organisms with cilia. What disease can be suspected?
- A. Lambliasis
- B. Amebiasis
- C. Trichomoniasis
- D. Balantidiasis
- E. Toxoplasmosis
Hint
Notice the occupational exposure and the structures of the organism seen in the stool, and ask which intestinal protozoan has this reservoir and moves this way.
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