KROK 1 2019 – Question 120 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A 12-year-old boy with clinical presentation of influenza has developed respiratory mycoplasmosis. What type of infection has developed under these conditions?
- A. Relapse
- B. Autoinfection
- C. Superinfection
- D. Mixed infection
- E. Iatrogenic infection
Hint
Think about how infection types are named according to the number and relationship of the pathogens acting in the body at the same time.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
- To determine toxigenicity of diphtheria causative agents obtained from patients, the cultures were inoculated in a Petri dish with nutrient agar…
- First-year schoolchildren have received tuberculin skin test (Mantoux test) at the school nurse’s office. The purpose of this test was:
- A 23-year-old woman presents to the emergency department complaining of bloody diarrhea, fatigue and confusion. A few days earlier, she went to a…
- A 6-year-old boy is brought to the pediatrician by his mother, who complains of low-grade fever, chronic cough and night sweats in her child. She…
- A 43-year-old man seeks evaluation at an emergency department with complaints of fever with chills, malaise, diffuse abdominal pain for over a week…
- Shigella capable of producing exotoxin was obtained from a patient diagnosed with dysentery. What Shigella species is it?