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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2015

Microscopy of a female patient’s swabs made from vaginal secretion revealed gramnegative bean-shaped diplococci. What provisional diagnosis can be made?

Answer options

  1. Syphilis
  2. Clamidiosis
  3. Gonorrhoea
  4. Toxoplasmosis
  5. Mycoplasmosis
Correct answer

Gonorrhoea

Explanation

Microscopy of a female patient’s swabs made from vaginal secretion revealed gram-negative bean-shaped diplococci. What provisional diagnosis can be made?The description above matches that of gram-negative Neisseria Gonorrhoea.

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