A 5-year-old child in a Dhaka slum presents with profuse watery diarrhoea and severe dehydration. Stool microscopy using darkfield illumination shows ...

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A 5-year-old child in a Dhaka slum presents with profuse watery diarrhoea and severe dehydration. Stool microscopy using darkfield illumination shows characteristic 'shooting star' motility of curved bacteria. Which organism is most likely?

Accepted Answer

Vibrio cholerae

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Escherichia coli

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Shigella flexneri

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Campylobacter jejuni

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Salmonella Typhi

uk-dtmh MCQ (SBA): Cholera Diagnosis

A 5-year-old child in a Dhaka slum presents with profuse watery diarrhoea and severe dehydration. Stool microscopy using darkfield illumination shows characteristic 'shooting star' motility of curved bacteria. Which organism is most likely?