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
- Excludes diagnosis of dysentery
- Confirms diagnosis of dysentery
- Past history of dysentery
- Non specific reaction
- Vaccination reaction
Correct answer
Confirms diagnosis of dysentery
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