KROK 1 2009 – Question 114 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A 10-year-old child had the mantoux tuberculin test administered. 48 hours later a papule up to 8 mm in diameter appeared on the site of the injection. What type of hypersensitivity reaction developed after the tuberculin injection?
- A. Seroreaction
- B. Type IV hypersensitivity reaction
- C. Atopic reaction
- D. Type II hypersensitivity reaction
- E. Arthus phenomenon
Hint
Consider the timing of the skin reaction and the effector cells or molecules responsible for it.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
- A patient with clinical presentations of immunodeficiency has undergone immunological tests. They revealed significant decrease in number of cells…
- During the regular sanitary-epidemiological inspection of a pharmacy, the bacteriological analysis of air was performed. The air was found to have…
- Following exposure to radiation a lot of mutant cells appeared in a patient. Some time later most of them were detected and destroyed by the…
- A 65-year-old man has purulent abscess on his neck. Analyses revealed a culture of gram-positive cocci with plasmocoagulase activity. This culture…
- After inoculation of the material obtained from the pharynx of an angina patient onto the blood-tellurite agar, grey colonies could be observed…
- Bacterioscopic examination of a smear from the pharynx of a diphtheria suspect revealed bacilli with volutine granules. What etiotropic drug should…