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 a bacteriological laboratory. To determine the diphtheria causative agent the material should be inoculated into the following differential diagnostic medium:

Answer options

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

Explanation

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 a bacteriological laboratory. To determine the diphtheria causative agent the material should be inoculated into the following differential diagnostic medium:Diagnostic culture media for diphtheria is blood tellurite agar.