KROK 1 2017 – Question 9 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
After inoculation of investigated material (feces) on 1% alkaline peptone water and 8-hour-long incubation in the thermostat under 37°C there is growth of pale bluish film observed. Such cultural properties are characteristic of the agent of the following disease:
- A. Cholera
- B. Plague
- C. Typhoid fever
- D. Paratyphoid A fever
- E. Dysentery
Hint
Use the alkaline pH of the enrichment medium and the rapid growth within hours to ask which gut pathogen is adapted to such conditions.
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