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Tissue & Blood Helminths — Topic Test

20 questions · exam mode (answers revealed at the end). 18 min suggested.

Q1.Easy#ImageBased#Investigation_ofChoice
A renal transplant recipient on tacrolimus develops fever, dyspnoea and a rising serum creatinine at week eight. A peripheral blood smear and tissue biopsy would show greatly enlarged cells bearing a single large basophilic intranuclear inclusion separated from the nuclear membrane by a clear halo, giving an owl's-eye appearance. Which is the investigation of choice to guide pre-emptive therapy in this setting?
ASerum IgM antibody detection
BQuantitative plasma viral-load PCR (viral DNA copies)
CTzanck smear of buffy coat
DShell-vial culture on human fibroblasts