KROK 1 2009 – Question 89 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A woman delivered a dead child with multiple developmental defects. What protozoan disease might have caused the intrauterine death?
- A. Amebiasis
- B. Lambliasis
- C. Leishmaniasis
- D. Malaria
- E. Toxoplasmosis
Hint
Think about which protozoon can cross the placenta from a non-immune mother and disturb the development of the fetal brain and eyes.
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