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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2009

A 10 month old boy has been ill for 5 days after consumption of unboiled milk. Body temperature is 38 - 39°C, there is vomiting, liquid stool. The child is pale and inert. His tongue is covered with white deposition. Heart sounds are muffled. Abdomen is swollen, there is borborygmus in the region of ubbilicus, liver is enlarged by 3 cm. Stool is liquid, dark-green, with admixtures of mucus, 5 times a day. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Escherichiosis
  2. Rotaviral infection
  3. Staphylococcal enteric infection
  4. Salmonellosis
  5. Acute shigellosis
Correct answer

Salmonellosis

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