KROK 1 2023 – Question 116 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A patient was hospitalized with the provisional diagnosis of typhoid fever. The disease onset was three days ago. The temperature is 39°C. What method of laboratory diagnostics must be used to confirm this diagnosis?
- A. Obtaining a biliculture
- B. Obtaining a coproculture
- C. Obtaining a urinoculture
- D. Serology
- E. Obtaining a blood culture
Hint
Think about the stage of illness: in the first days of fever, which body compartment still holds the bacteria before they are shed in bile, stool and urine?
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