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Microbiology AIIMS 2018 080ecd84

Episodes of repeated thin stools with mucus, subjective feeling of fever and lower abdominal pain, with leukocytes in stool. Which of the following is likely?

A
Giardia
B
Entamoeba
C
Staph
D
Clostridium perfringens
High-Yield Explanation
As leucocytes are present in stools so it is inflammatory type of diarrhea. So the likely organism is Entamoeba As Staph and C. perfringens are responsible for water diarrhea (non-inflammatory diarrhea) Giardia cause malabsorption syndrome.

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