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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2009

While studying a microslide obtained from the punctuate of a regional lymph node and stained by Romanovsky-Giemsa method a physician revealed some light-pink thin microorganisms with 12-14 regular spiral coils and pointed ends, up to 10-13 micrometer long. This might be the causative agent of the following disease:

Answer options

  1. Leptospirosis
  2. Relapsing fever
  3. Trypanosomiasis
  4. Leishmaniasis
  5. Syphilis
Correct answer

Syphilis

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