KROK 1 2015 – Question 182 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A patient diagnosed with acute dysentery has been treated for 3 days in an infectious diseases hospital. On admission there were complaints of high temperature, stomachache and fluid excrements with mucus as often as 8-10 times a day. What sample should be taken for analysis?
- A. Bile
- B. Feces
- C. Liquor
- D. Urine
- E. Blood
Hint
Ask where the causative agent of this intestinal infection is shed from the body, and which material therefore carries the living organism for culture.
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