Saturday, 31 May 2014

Pathology (Bacteriology)

Your patient is a 20 year old man with a single, slowly expanding non painful scaly lesion on his chest for past 2 months. The lesion is nonpruitic, and he has a lost sensation at the site of th lesion. He is a recent immigrant from central America. An acid fast stain of a scraping of a lesion is positive, Which one of the following disease is he most likely to have..

a)cutaneous tuberculosis
b)fish tank granuloma
c)lepromatous leprosy
d)scrofula
e)tuberculoid leprosy

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