KROK 1 2010 – Question 52 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Clinical diagnosis of a female patient was gonorrhoea. What examination method can be applied for confirmation of this diagnosis?
- A. Infection of laboratory animals
- B. Microscopy of pathological material
- C. Hemagglutination reaction
- D. Immobilization reaction
- E. Test with bacteriophage
Hint
Consider how the causative bacterium of this sexually transmitted infection is usually demonstrated directly in genital discharge in the first-line laboratory work-up.
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