KROK 1 2010 – Question 107 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A patient working at a pig farm complains about paroxysmal abdominal pain, liquid feces with admixtures of mucus and blood, headache, weakness, fever. Examination of large intestine revealed ulcers from 1 mm up to several cm large, feces contained oval unicellular organisms with cilia. What disease should be suspected?
- A. Toxoplasmosis
- B. Balantidiasis
- C. Amebiasis
- D. Trichomoniasis
- E. Lambliasis
Hint
Match the occupational exposure and the surface structures of the organism seen in the stool to the protozoan that ulcerates the large intestine.
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