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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2020

Due to early taking of antibiotics by a patient with typical clinical presentation of dysentery, bacteriological analysis of the patient’s feces detected no Shigella in the samples. Passive hemagglutination reaction shows a four time increase in the titer of anti Shigella antibodies in the patient’s paired sera. What does it indicate?

Answer options

  1. Excludes diagnosis of dysentery
  2. Confirms diagnosis of dysentery
  3. Past history of dysentery
  4. Non specific reaction
  5. Vaccination reaction
Correct answer

Confirms diagnosis of dysentery

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