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A 4-year-old boy had untimely vaccination. He complains of painful swallowing, headache, inertness, fever. Objectively: the child is pale, has enlarged anterior cervical lymph nodes, swollen tonsils with cyanotic hyperemia, tonsils are covered with gray-white pellicles which cannot be easily removed. When the pellicles are forcibly removed, the tonsils bleed. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Pseudomembranous tonsillitis
  2. Lacunar tonsillitis
  3. Follicular tonsillitis
  4. Infectious mononucleosis
  5. Oropharyngeal diphtheria
Correct answer

Oropharyngeal diphtheria

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