KROK 1 2017 – Question 194 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
On examination of a patient with disease onset 5 days ago the doctor suspected tularemia and prescribed the patient tularin intracutaneously. What is the purpose of this drug administration in the patient?
- A. Treatment evaluation
- B. Prognosis for the disease
- C. Treatment
- D. Allergy diagnostics
- E. Prevention
Hint
Ask what a local skin reaction to an intradermally injected bacterial preparation can reveal about the patient's immune state this early in the disease.
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