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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

  1. Levenshtein-Yessen agar
  2. Endo’s agar
  3. Sabouraud’s agar
  4. Ploskyrev’s agar
  5. Blood tellurite agar
Correct answer

Blood tellurite agar

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