KROK 1 2021 – Question 79 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A 14-year-old boy was diagnosed with Hutchinson’s triad: barrel-shaped teeth, parenchymatous keratitis, and deafness. These signs are characteristic of:
- A. Tuberculosis
- B. Toxoplasmosis
- C. Leprosy
- D. Opisthorchiasis
- E. Syphilis
Hint
Recall which congenital infection, passed from the mother across the placenta, damages the incisors, the cornea and the eighth cranial nerve of a child.
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