Exam questionKROK 1Dentistry ยท 2019
A 36-year-old man was hospitalized into the infectious diseases hospital with profuse diarrhea, signs of exicosis, and low body temperature. He died of uremia. Autopsy revealed a colorless liquid resembling rice water in the lumen of the small intestine; mucosa is edematous. Microscopy of the small intestine shows plethoric vessels, focal hemorrhages, enterocyte desquamation, hypersecretion of goblet cells, and lympholeukocytic infiltration of mucosal stroma. Make the diagnosis:
Answer options
- Dysentery
- Salmonellosis
- Cholera
- Crohn disease
- Typhoid fever
Correct answer
Cholera
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