KROK 1 2017 – Question 48 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
In a township there was registered an outbreak of hepatitis, which was attributed to water supply. What hepatitis virus could be the cause of the outbreak in this township?
- A. Hepatitis D virus
- B. Hepatitis G virus
- C. Hepatitis E virus
- D. Hepatitis B virus
- E. Hepatitis C virus
Hint
Waterborne spread implies a fecal-oral route of transmission; ask which hepatitis viruses are transmitted that way and which depend on blood or body fluids.
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