KROK 1 2016 – Question 154 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A patient consulted a physician about chest pain, cough, fever. Roentgenography of lungs revealed eosinophilic infiltrates that were found to contain larvae. What kind of helminthiasis are these presentations typical of?
- A. Fascioliasis
- B. Ascariasis
- C. Cysticercosis
- D. Echinococcosis
- E. Trichinosis
Hint
Ask which helminths pass through the lungs as part of their development after being swallowed, and what that migration does to lung tissue.
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