KROK 1 2015 – Question 155 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
This year influenza epidemic is characterised by patients’ body temperature varying from 36.9 °C to 37.9 °C. Such fever is called:
- A. Apyretic
- B. High
- C. Subfebrile
- D. Hyperpyretic
- E. Moderate
Hint
Use the standard grading of fever by temperature bands above the normal of about 37 °C and see which band the whole reported range falls into.
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