A Patient with a History of Eating Wild Game Comes

question 15

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

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