KROK 1 2016 – Question 25 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Stool culture test of a 6-month-old bottle-fed baby revealed a strain of intestinal rod-shaped bacteria of antigen structure O111. What diagnosis can be made?
- A. Dysentery-like disease
- B. Choleriform disease
- C. Gastroenteritis
- D. Food poisoning
- E. Colienteritis
Hint
The O antigen defines a serogroup; recall which gut rod has pathogenic serogroups that are linked to infections in young, artificially fed infants.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
- Immune-enzyme assay has detected HBs antigen in blood serum. What disease is it characteristic of?
- A patient has been hospitalised with provisional diagnosis of virus B hepatitis. Serological reaction based on complementation of antigen with…
- Parents of a 5-year-old child report him to have frequent colds that develop into pneumonias, presence of purulent rashes on the skin. Laboratory…
- Material obtained from a patient contains several types of microorganisms (staphylococci and streptococci) causative of the patient’s disease. Name…
- A laboratory has been investigating virulence of a diphtheria agent. In the process of the experiment the infection was introduced intraperitoneally…
- A patient consulted a dentist about restricted mouth opening (trismus). He has a history of a stab wound of the lower extremity. What infection can…