Question 20

(Multiple Choice)

A patient with a history of eating wild game comes to the physician with a history of diarrhea over the past 3 weeks. In addition, he complains of fever, muscular pain and tenderness, headache, and general weakness. The patient also has a significant eosinophilia. A biopsy of a nodular area on his forearm is seen in the image below. This is consistent with a diagnosis of infection caused by A patient with a history of eating wild game comes to the physician with a history of diarrhea over the past 3 weeks. In addition, he complains of fever, muscular pain and tenderness, headache, and general weakness. The patient also has a significant eosinophilia. A biopsy of a nodular area on his forearm is seen in the image below. This is consistent with a diagnosis of infection caused by   A) Leishmania donovani. B) Wuchereria bancrofti. C) Trichinella spiralis. D) Loa loa.


A) Leishmania donovani.
B) Wuchereria bancrofti.
C) Trichinella spiralis.
D) Loa loa.

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