KROK 1 2017 – Question 22 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A shepherd, who tended to the flock of sheep with his dogs, gradually developed pain in the chest and bloody expectorations. X-ray revealed spheric helminth larvae in the patient’s lungs. Specify the helminth that could be the causative agent of this disease:
- A. Hymenolepis nana
- B. Echinococcus
- C. Taenia solium
- D. Diphyllobothrium latum
- E. Fasciola hepatica
Hint
Match the shepherd's contact with sheep and dogs to the parasite whose infective eggs reach people from these animals, and ask which larval stage can settle in lung tissue.
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