KROK 1 2019 – Question 74 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A family has two children. The younger child is under a year. The child has developed spastic cough attacks. Similar clinical presentation was observed in the elder preschool child one month ago. The doctor suspects pertussis infection. What method enables retrospective diagnostics of this disease?
- A. Bacteriological
- B. Biological
- C. Molecular biological
- D. Microscopy
- E. Serological
Hint
Retrospective diagnosis is used once the agent may no longer be present, so compare which methods look for the pathogen itself with which look for lasting evidence of the infection.
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