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An 8-year-old boy fell ill acutely: he presents with fever, weakness, headache, abdominal pain, recurrent vomiting, then diarrhea and tenesmus. Stools occur 12 times daily, are scanty, contain a lot of mucus, pus, streaks of blood. His sigmoid gut is tender and hardened. What is your diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Dysentery
  2. Escherichiosis
  3. Salmonellosis
  4. Cholera
  5. Staphylococcal gastroenteritis
Correct answer

Dysentery

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