KROK 1 2020 – Question 60 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
After a celebratory dinner, several people, who were eating a cake with duck egg cream, developed food poisoning. What genus of bacteria is the most likely cause of food poisoning in this case?
- A. Yersinia
- B. Clostridium
- C. Corynebacterium
- D. Salmonella
- E. Shigella
Hint
Match the food vehicle in the story, a lightly cooked egg-based cream from waterfowl, with the genus of gut bacteria that classically contaminates it.
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