Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2019
A 34-year-old man died in a comatose state. According to his family after a business trip to an African country he developed periodical jaundice attacks. Autopsy shows the following: dense enlarged spleen with slate-black pulp; enlarged plethoric liver, gray-black on section; cerebral gray matter is brown-gray; cerebral white matter contains numerous small hemorrhages. What infectious disease can be suspected?
Answer options
- Meningococcemia
- Prion infection
- Generalized herpetic infection
- Malaria
- Generalized cryptococcosis
Correct answer
Malaria
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