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A 30-year-old patient complains of paroxysmal abdominal pain, frequent liquid stools up to 10 times a day. Throughout the first 3 days he had a fever, since the 2nd day of disease there were scant liquid stools mixed with mucus. On palpation: tenderness of all colon segments. Sigmoid colon was found spastic. What is your provisional diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Acute dysentery
  2. Salmonellosis
  3. Cholera
  4. Intestinal amebiasis
  5. Balantidiasis
Correct answer

Acute dysentery

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