KROK 1 2018 – Question 6 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A patient was brought into the infectional diseases hospital on the 8th day since the disease onset. The patient complains of headache, malaise, and weakness. A sample of blood was taken for the serological test. Widal agglutination test results with blood sample diluted 1:200 and typhoid fever O-diagnosticum were positive. What diagnosis can be made based on the results of this test?
- A. Leptospirosis
- B. Typhoid fever
- C. Tuberculosis
- D. Dysentery
- E. Cholera
Hint
Ask what the Widal reaction detects and which pathogen supplies the antigen it uses, rather than guessing from the nonspecific symptoms alone.
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