Practice questions › Adult health: medicine › Australian and travel infections
Australian and travel infections
A practice question in the style of the AMC Part 1 MCQ exam. Choose your answer to see the explanation.
The first malaria film in a febrile returned traveller is negative. What is the next step?
Show the answer
The answer is E: Repeat films over 24 to 48 hours.
One negative film does not exclude malaria.
You have answered 7 free questions. Keep going in the course: more than 3,000 exam-style questions in a six-month plan, with a short lesson each day and flashcards that come back when you need them. Week 1 is free.
This question comes from Week 8 of AM Vault: Infection, immunity and joints. That week has 126 more exam-style questions like it, 6 short lessons and 150 flashcards. The course starts free with Week 1 and reaches this topic in week 8, as part of a six-month plan with full mock exams along the way.
Start Week 1 freeTake the free readiness checkSpotted something wrong? Tell us.