KROK 1 2016 – Question 56 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a Middle-Eastern woman, who had been suffering from wasting fever for a long time, revealed enlarged blackened liver and spleen. Bone marrow was hyperplastic and black-colored as well. Cerebral cortex was smoky grey. What disease is it characteristic of?
- A. Malaria
- B. Epidemic typhus
- C. AIDS
- D. Hepatitis
- E. Sepsis
Hint
Note both the geographic origin of the patient and the black pigment in the organs: which long febrile infection leaves such a deposit?
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