KROK 1 2020 – Question 96 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
After examination, the doctor diagnosed the patient with parainfluenza, based on the clinical findings. What route of transmission is characteristic of this disease?
- A. Fecal-oral transmission
- B. Parenteral transmission
- C. Saliva-to-blood transmission
- D. Airborne
- E. Vector-borne transmission
Hint
Consider where this virus multiplies in the host and how it leaves one person to reach the respiratory epithelium of another.
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