KROK 1 2007 – Question 39 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient consulted a doctor about bowels disfunction. The doctor established symptoms of duodenitis and enteritis. Laboratory examination helped to make the following diagnosis: lambliosis. What medication should be administered?
- A. Tetracycline
- B. Metronidazole
- C. Erythromycin
- D. Chingamin
- E. Monomycin
Hint
Giardia lives in the duodenum as an anaerobic flagellate protozoon; think of the antimicrobial class that is activated by reduction in anaerobic organisms and also used against anaerobic bacteria.
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