MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

ABDOMINAL

GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY

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A 45-year-old man presented in the infectious diseases hospital with a profuse diarrhea, exicosis, acute decline of his body temperature. He died soon of an uremia. An autopsy revealed in his small bowel lumen a colorless liquid in the form of rice broth and edematous mucosa. Microscopical investigation of a small bowel showed a hyperemia of vessels, a focal hemorrhage, a desquamation ofenterocytes, a hypersecretion of a beaker (goblet) cells and lympho-leucocytes infiltration of a mucosal stroma. What is the most likely diagnosis?
A
Cholera
B
Salmonellosis
C
Dysentery
D
Typhoid
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