Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2011
A 4-year-old child presents with general weakness, sore throat and deglutitive problem. After his examination a doctor suspected diphtheria and sent the material to the bacteriological laboratory. In order to determine the diphtheria causative agent the material should be inoculated into the following differential diagnostic medium:
Answer options
- Levenshtein-Yessen agar
- Endo’s agar
- Sabouraud’s agar
- Ploskyrev’s agar
- Blood tellurite agar
Correct answer
Blood tellurite agar
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