KROK 1 2007 – Question 20 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A man was admitted to the hospital on the 5th day of disease that manifested itself by jaundice, muscle aching, chill, nose bleedings. In course of laboratory diagnostics a bacteriologist performed darkfield microscopy of the patient’s blood drop. Name a causative agent of this disease:
- A. Borrelia duttonii
- B. Leptospira interrogans
- C. Rickettsia mooseri
- D. Bartonella bacilliformis
- E. Calymmatobacterium granulomatis
Hint
Darkfield microscopy of blood reveals thin, tightly coiled motile spirochetes; combine this with the first-week picture of jaundice, severe muscle pain, chills and nosebleeds to decide which spirochetal infection fits.
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