KROK 1 2007 – Question 174 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A lymph node punctate of a patient with suspected protozoal disease was examined. Examination of the stained specimen (Romanovsky’s stain) revealed some crescent bodies with pointed end, blue cytoplasm and red nucleus. What protozoan were revealed in the smears?
- A. Malarial plasmodiums
- B. Trypanosomes
- C. Toxoplasms
- D. Dermotropic leishmania
- E. Viscerotropic leishmania
Hint
Concentrate on the distinctive crescent shape with one pointed end, typical of the rapidly dividing intracellular tissue stage of a coccidian parasite found in lymph nodes.
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