A male international business traveler has returned from a trip to Indonesia. While there, he hired a prostitute for companionship and engaged in unprotected sex on more than one occasion
Unbeknownst to him, this prostitute harbored the hepatitis C virus. Upon return to the United States, he exhibited no symptoms and returned to his usual activities. During this period of no outward symptoms, the man would be classified as being in
A)
the preclinical stage of disease.
B)
remission and unlikely to develop hepatitis C.
C)
the clinical disease stage of hepatitis C.
D)
the chronic phase of hepatitis C.
Ans:
A
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During the preclinical stage, the disease is not clinically evident but is destined to progress to clinical disease.
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