KROK 1 2010 – Question 60 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology

During regular examination of schoolchildren it was revealed that a 10 year old girl had asymmetric oval eggs with a larva in the scrape from her perianal folds. What diagnosis should be made?

  1. A. Ascariasis
  2. B. Enterobiasis
  3. C. Amebiasis
  4. D. Trichocephalosis
  5. E. Ankylostomiasis
Hint

Match the egg shape and the sampling site to the egg-laying habit of the helminth, and ask why stool is not the specimen of choice here.

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