Just Back from a Trip to South America, You Now

Multiple Choice

Just back from a trip to South America, you now have a severe diarrheal illness.Your symptoms, other than diarrhea, are pain, cramps, some fecal blood, and fever.These are symptoms of many of the gastrointestinal diseases, so that information does not help you or the doctors identify the infectious agent.Your doctor wants to send a fecal sample to the microbiology lab for them to look at it under the light microscope.Based upon this protocol selection, the physician believes that you have ______.

A) salmonellosis
B) hepatitis A
C) rotavirus
D) cholera
E) amoebiasis