causative organism can,t be isolated on artificial culture media
Question 3
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Brill Zinsser disease refers to:
Answer
Recurrent epidemic typhus
Q fever
Rickettsial pox
Recurrent atypical pneumonia
Question 4
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Disease caused by raising chicken with an undiagnosed disease is:
Answer
Q fever
Relapsing fever
Leptospirosis
Ornithosis
Question 5
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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?
Answer
branching hyphae with basideospores
yeast cells
pseudophyte
unbranching hyphae with some breaking into arthroconidia
Question 6
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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:
Answer
Candida
Mucor
Cryptococcus
Aspergillus
Question 7
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Which of the following patients is at high risk of invasive aspergillosis?
Answer
Patient with bronchial asthma
Patient with Ig G deficiency
AIDS patient with CD 4 count less than 50
Patient with deficiency in complement component
Question 8
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30 year old HIV patient with mouth pain and difficulty of swallowing. Examination reveals white plaques on oropharyngeal mucosa. Causative organism is:
Answer
Septate filamentous fungus
Spirochate growing in rabbit testis
Part of normal flora
Yeast that forms pseudohyphae when invades tissue
Question 9
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AIDS patient suffering cough and dyspnea. Chest x ray shows interstitial infiltration with ground glass appearance. The most likely organism is:
Answer
Crytococcus neorformans
Histoplasma capsulatum
Toxoplasma gondii
Pneumocystis jirovecii
Question 10
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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: