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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2023

A 5-year-old child became acutely ill with the fever of 39.2°C. one episode of vomiting, complaints of cramping pain in the abdomen, tenesmus, and of movements that produce a sequent bowel feces and a large amount of mucus with pus and blood streaks. Examination detects a dense sigmoid colon that is painful to palpation. Make the diagnosis.

Answer options

  1. Salmonellosis
  2. Cholera
  3. Rotavirus infection
  4. Shigellosis
  5. Acute appendicitis
Correct answer

Shigellosis

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