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You have 10 minutes to complete the 10 questions in this quiz.
Serological tests are reliable in:
Atypical pneumonia
Trachoma
Non Gonococcal urethritis
Lymphogranuloma venerum
Which of the following doesn't describe trachoma?
causes mucopurulent conjunctivitis
can lead to blindness
caused by serotypes D-K
causative organism can,t be isolated on artificial culture media
Brill Zinsser disease refers to:
Recurrent epidemic typhus
Q fever
Rickettsial pox
Recurrent atypical pneumonia
Disease caused by raising chicken with an undiagnosed disease is:
Relapsing fever
Leptospirosis
Ornithosis
Patient having a dog with areas of hair loss suffered from itchy inflammed lesions. What would you expect to find on KOH of skin scrapping?
branching hyphae with basideospores
yeast cells
pseudophyte
unbranching hyphae with some breaking into arthroconidia
50 year old AIDS patient presents with fever and signs of meningitis. Examination of CSF sediment stained with indian ink revealed yeast cells. The causative organism is:
Candida
Mucor
Cryptococcus
Aspergillus
Which of the following patients is at high risk of invasive aspergillosis?
Patient with bronchial asthma
Patient with Ig G deficiency
AIDS patient with CD 4 count less than 50
Patient with deficiency in complement component
30 year old HIV patient with mouth pain and difficulty of swallowing. Examination reveals white plaques on oropharyngeal mucosa. Causative organism is:
Septate filamentous fungus
Spirochate growing in rabbit testis
Part of normal flora
Yeast that forms pseudohyphae when invades tissue
AIDS patient suffering cough and dyspnea. Chest x ray shows interstitial infiltration with ground glass appearance. The most likely organism is:
Crytococcus neorformans
Histoplasma capsulatum
Toxoplasma gondii
Pneumocystis jirovecii
Patient with heart valve transplant presents with chest pain, hemoptysis and chills. He died within few hours. Autopsy showed septate acutely branching hyphae. The organism is:
Histoplasma