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Question 1

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The reaction of antibody with a non soluble antigen or an antigen-cated particles result in formation of visible to the eye clumb is called
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  • agglutination
  • precipitation
  • neutralization
  • complement fixation test

Question 2

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ELlSA makes use of:
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  • fluorenlubels
  • enzyme
  • radioactive lubels
  • It is not a labeled immune for...

Question 3

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widal from used to.....
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  • slide agglutination test
  • tube agglutination
  • CUT
  • lectin pathway

Question 4

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Which of the following immunoglobulins may be transferes to the fetus during pregnancy
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  • lgG
  • lgM

Question 5

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The genus specific name for group A streptococci is
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  • streptococcus pneumonia
  • streptococcus viridans
  • streptococcus diphtheria
  • streptococcus pyogenes

Question 6

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The main pathogenic factor of corynebacterium diphtheria is
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  • an endotoxin
  • an exotoxin
  • a spore
  • a protein

Question 7

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The specific prophylaxis of diphtheria is performed by
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  • a toxoid
  • a killed vaccine
  • passive transfer at serum
  • a live vaccine

Question 8

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Which of the following statement concerning cholera infection is correct?
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  • death occurs in 46 weeks exclusion and respiratory failure
  • the disease is marked by microorganism invasion and hemorrhage of large intestine
  • vibrio cholera produce an acute fehrile disease with
  • the disease is rapidly progressive and maybe fatal in 2 days because of bacterial multiplication in the gut and shock

Question 9

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Beta lactamase production is a major problem for treatment of infections caused by:
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  • Corynebacterium diphtheria
  • Neisseria meningitides
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Treponemapallidum

Question 10

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HIV has been shown to be transmitted by one of the following except
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  • Sexual contact
  • Perinatal infection
  • Mosquitos
  • Blood transfer

Question 11

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Each organism is identified by two names including:
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  • family and kingdom
  • genus and species
  • family and species
  • family and genus

Question 12

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[blank_start]Simple[blank_end] techniques of staining make use of only one dye,where as [blank_start]Complex[blank_end] staining a combination of dyes?
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  • Simple
  • Complex

Question 13

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The volutine granules of corynebacterium diptheria are visualized by [blank_start]Neisser[blank_end] Staining
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  • Neisser

Question 14

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The following structure are located in the cytoplasmic membrane?
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  • spore
  • nucleotid
  • ribosomes
  • capsule

Question 15

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Based on their cell wall structure bacteria are divided into:
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  • gram(+) and gram(-)
  • aerobe and anerobe
  • sphere and spinal
  • cocci and rods

Question 16

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Peptidoglycan polymers are found only in:
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  • bacterial cell
  • animal cell
  • a,b
  • viruses

Question 17

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Flagella are present in every bacterium
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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Sporulation appears to be
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  • an initiation of the bacterium cell
  • a reaction to conditions that are unfavorable for normal growth
  • a status to resist desiccation and other harmful conditions
  • a,b
  • b,c

Question 19

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The complete killing or removal of all microorganisms including bacterial spores is called?
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  • sterilization
  • disinfection
  • antisepsis
  • non is true

Question 20

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Cytoplasm contains:
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  • storage granules
  • spores
  • capsules

Question 21

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Which of following component are not found in the gram negative cell wall?
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  • amino acids
  • lipopolysaccharides
  • peptidoglycan
  • teichoic acids

Question 22

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Pfeiffer technique of staining makes use of following dye?
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  • methylene blue
  • ziehl’s fuchsine
  • neutral red
  • gentian violet

Question 23

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Which of the following structure contains genes for enzymes and antibiotic resistance
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  • plasmld
  • pilli
  • capsules
  • plasma membrane

Question 24

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Which of the following is the most important structure related to microbial attachment to cells
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  • flagella
  • plasmid
  • peptidoglycan
  • glycocalix

Question 25

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Which of the following is not a gram negative microbe
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  • Clostridum perfringes
  • Vibrio cholerae
  • excheriehia
  • bordetella

Question 26

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What causes it to be pink
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  • pheiffer's fuchsine
  • gram iodine
  • crystale violet
  • neisser

Question 27

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Selective media are designed to
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  • support the growth of the desires microorganisms
  • inhibit the growth of non-desired microorganisms
  • a+b
  • none of the above

Question 28

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Which part of the antibody molecule reacts with the antigenic determinant agent
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  • the fab fragment
  • the fe fragment
  • the constant H region
  • the constants

Question 29

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The chemical complement pathway is activated by
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  • microbial endotoxins
  • antigen-antibody complex
  • microbial proteins

Question 30

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All of the following statement about exotoxins are true expect
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  • they are produce mainly by gram (+) bacteria
  • they may be neutralized by antitoxins
  • they are proteins
  • they are heat stable at 100*

Question 31

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In Solid media bacterial growth is detected by observing
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  • appearance of colonies
  • development of pellet
  • development of turbidity
  • a surface membrane

Question 32

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The last phase of bacterial growth curve is:
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  • log phase
  • lag phase
  • stationary phase
  • phase of decline

Question 33

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Which of the following component is not found in the gram(-) cell wall
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  • lipopolysaccharide
  • peptidoglycan
  • teichoic acids
  • O antigen

Question 34

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The antiseptic is:
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  • an antimicrobial agent that can be used on inanimate object
  • an antimicrobial agent that can be used on living tissue
  • an antibiotic
  • an enzyme

Question 35

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Klett is a staining procedure for visualizing:
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  • spores
  • capsules
  • volutine granules
  • nucleotid

Question 36

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All of the following media are differential except:
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  • Teilurite agar
  • Eosin-methylene blue agar(Levine)
  • Moller-hiton agar
  • Deoxycholate citrate

Question 37

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Immunoprophylaxis of tuberculosis includes:
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  • live affenuated vaccine BCG
  • injection of antimycobacterial serum
  • passive transfer of ready made antibodies from sensitized person
  • a toxoid

Question 38

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Passive immunization is an application of:
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  • small doses of infective agent
  • ready made antibodies, formed by another host in response to artificial immunization or to natural infection
  • toxoids
  • killed vaccines

Question 39

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Which of the following statements about exotoxins are true:
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  • they are produced mainly by gram(+) bacteria
  • they may be neutralized by antitoxins
  • they are proteins
  • they are heat stable at 100*

Question 40

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Which of the following is not a distinctive characteristic of viruses
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  • viruses lack the machinery for protein synthesis
  • viruses require living cells for replication
  • viruses replicate by a process of binary fission
  • viral genomes are either DNA or RNA but not both

Question 41

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the immune response elicited by Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine is deficient in specific
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  • secretory lgA
  • serum IgA
  • serum lgM
  • IgG

Question 42

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All of the following are characteristics of the human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)expect?
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  • it bind to CD4 molecule preferentially
  • it contains gp120 and gp30 envelope proteins
  • it is the causative agent of AIDS
  • it contains DNA within its core

Question 43

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Complement fixation test requires
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  • dissolved antigen
  • corpusculum antigen
  • antitoxin
  • complement

Question 44

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Which of the immunoglobin molecule is pentamenie
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  • lgM
  • IgG
  • lgD
  • lgE
  • lgA

Question 45

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Resection of the transplanted organ due to preformed antibodies in recipient is defined
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  • hyper acute
  • aclerated
  • acute
  • chronic

Question 46

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microorganisms can be defined as living creatures so small that are not visible by eye
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  • True
  • False

Question 47

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Loffler staining procedure stains bacteria in
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  • blue
  • red
  • green
  • yellow

Question 48

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Which of the following is not true related to endotoxins
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  • are secreted from cells
  • can be linked to meningococcemia
  • produced by gram negative microorganism
  • can cause fever

Question 49

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Gram negative bacteria differ from gram(+) organism because they passes?
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  • LPC(A)
  • Peptidoglycan
  • Only a cytoplasmic membrane
  • Lipoteichoic acid

Question 50

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Most bacteria increase in number through the process of
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  • binary fission
  • budding
  • sporulation
  • sexual reproduction

Question 51

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The term “growth” when for microorganism refer to
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  • increase in cell number
  • production of endospores
  • the age and size of the cell
  • all of the above

Question 52

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All of the following statement about bacteria cell division are true except:
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  • all bacteria double their number every 1 hour
  • bacterial times are influenced by environmental conditions
  • the two bacterial cells following division are genetically identical, they are ones
  • all the above

Question 53

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Bacterial nucleotid consist of
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  • no chromosomes
  • one chromosome
  • several chromosome

Question 54

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Bacterial capsule can be visual sated by:
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  • gram stain
  • loeffler stain
  • klett stain
  • moller stain

Question 55

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Lipopolysacharides can be found in large amount in:
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  • gram(+) bacterial wall
  • gram (-) bacterial wall
  • both
  • none of above

Question 56

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Complex methods for bacterial staining are
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  • Loeffler stain
  • Pfefiffer stain
  • Gram stain
  • ZiehI-Neelsen stain

Question 57

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Specific identity (serotype) of influenza virus can be accomplished by:
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  • hemmagglutination inhibition test
  • neutralization test
  • complement fixation test
  • hemadsorbtion test

Question 58

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enlargement of one or both parotid glands in the common clinical manifestation of:
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  • measles
  • mumps
  • rubella
  • grippe

Question 59

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The initial replication of human poliovirus starts in:
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  • pharyngeal and intestinal mucosa
  • blood
  • brain
  • joint

Question 60

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In congenital rubella the fetus produce:
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  • IgM
  • IgG
  • lgA
  • lgE

Question 61

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The most common classification system used in microbiology is binomal and was established by:
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  • Pasteur
  • Koch
  • Linnaeus
  • Gram

Question 62

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Common pili play role in bacterial;
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  • conjugation
  • adherence to surface
  • motility
  • precipitation

Question 63

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Endotoxins are:
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  • found in gram (+) bacteria
  • found in gram(-) bacteria
  • proteins
  • a structural component of the spore

Question 64

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Which of the following techniques allows to start with a single piece of microbial DNA and produce billions of copies in matter of hour
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  • PCR
  • ELlSA
  • hybridoma biotechnology
  • IFA

Question 65

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Which of the following is the fastest way to kill endospores
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  • autoclave at 121*C
  • hot air at 160*C
  • clorox solution
  • filtration

Question 66

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Gram positive bacterium is most susceptible to the action of penicillin in the following phase of growth?
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  • lag
  • log
  • stationary
  • decline

Question 67

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The primary immune response include participation of?
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  • IgM
  • lgG
  • lgD
  • lgE
  • lgA

Question 68

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The first vaccine was used against:
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  • measles
  • tuberculosis
  • hepatitis
  • small pox

Question 69

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The alternative pathway of complement activation is:
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  • T lymphocytes dependent
  • antibody independent
  • antibody dependent
  • T lymphocytes independent

Question 70

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Which of the immunoglobulins mediates the local immunity
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  • lgA
  • lgM
  • lgG
  • lgD
  • lgE

Question 71

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The formation of pharyngeal pseudomembrane is not indicative for
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  • tuberculosis
  • diphtheria
  • whooping
  • gas gangrene

Question 72

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The most potent biological toxin known is
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  • clastridiumbotidinum exotoxin
  • staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin
  • bacillus cereus toxin
  • clostridium perfringes exotoxin

Question 73

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The special staining method used for microscopic diagnosis of tuberculosis
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  • Gram
  • Klett
  • Ziehl-Neelsen
  • Moller

Question 74

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Cytopathic effect is
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  • killing of bacteria by viruses
  • absorption of red blood cells by surface of cultured cells
  • damage of cultured infected cells and associated morphological change
  • antigen-antibody reaction

Question 75

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Viruses contain the following type of nucleic acid
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  • DNA-single strained
  • DNA double strained
  • DNA or RNA
  • both DNA and RNA

Question 76

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Hepatitis B virus is most often transmitted by
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  • sexual contact
  • air
  • blood transfusion
  • ticks

Question 77

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Varicellazinster virus is a member of
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  • hypersnviridae
  • hepadnaviridae
  • retroviridae
  • paenviridae

Question 78

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Epstizin Bar Virus is the causative agent of:
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  • measles
  • mumps
  • rubella
  • infectious mononucleosis

Question 79

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Sabin's vaccine against poliomyelitis is secretory immunity in the intestine
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  • a killed vaccine
  • a toxoid
  • monovalent hysosome vaccine

Question 80

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Spherical bacteria,arranged in cluster are known as:
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  • Staphylococci
  • Streptococci
  • Diplococci
  • Vibrios

Question 81

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Which concentration of ethyl alcohol is the most effective one as disinfectant and antiseptic
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  • 95%
  • 70%
  • 50%
  • 30%

Question 82

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Penicillin specifically inhibits:
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  • protein synthesis
  • peptidoglyconsynthesis
  • nucleic acid synthesis
  • formation of capsules

Question 83

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Conjugation differs from transformation and transduction in that it requires a contact between the donor and the recipient:
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  • True
  • False

Question 84

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Which of the following structure is involved in bacterial attachment to cell surface?
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  • capsule
  • flagella
  • pilli
  • measurants

Question 85

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Bacterial growth medium that contains penicillins:
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  • minimal medium
  • selective medium
  • differential medium

Question 86

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The antigen-antibody complex activates complement through:
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  • classical pathway
  • alternative pathway
  • lectin pathway

Question 87

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Complement is
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  • an acute phase protein
  • an extracellular microbial factor
  • a manose receptor
  • multicomponent humeral factor trigger enzyme cascade in innate immunity

Question 88

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The unit of measurement of bacterial size is:
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  • nanometer
  • micrometer
  • millimeter
  • kilobase

Question 89

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Bacterial growth curve is generally separated into
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  • two distinct phase
  • three distinct phase
  • four distinct phase
  • five distinct phase

Question 90

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Resistance to many antibiotics is carried by:
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  • R plasmids
  • sex pilli
  • spores
  • capsules

Question 91

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Which of the following structures are known to protect bacteria from phago... by white blood cells
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  • flagella
  • spores
  • capsules
  • ribosomes

Question 92

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Spherical bacteria, arranged in chains are known as:
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  • staphylococci
  • streptococci
  • neisseria
  • bacilli

Question 93

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Endotoxins are associated with
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  • Catalase production
  • Flagella in gram (-) bacteria
  • LPS (lipopolyshoccharide)
  • Capsules in gram (-) bacteria

Question 94

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The antigenic typing of salmonella spp detects:
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  • D, Vi and H antigens
  • Protein
  • M protein
  • Endotoxin

Question 95

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Which of the following test is used to detect delayed type hypersensitivity
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  • ASO test
  • CFT
  • Mantoux test
  • None of the above

Question 96

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Which are the most important immunoglobulins at the mucosal surfaces
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  • IgA
  • lgM
  • lgD
  • lgG

Question 97

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Salmonella spp is causative agent of
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  • typhoid fever
  • cholera
  • paratyphoid fever
  • bacterial dysentery

Question 98

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There are animal reservoirs for:
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  • leptosspinosis
  • salmonellosis
  • cholera
  • diphtheria

Question 99

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Bacteria could be cultured in artificial nutrient media
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  • True
  • False

Question 100

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The mean doubling time for most bacterium is
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  • 8 hours
  • 24 hours
  • 20-30 minutes
  • 4 weeks

Question 101

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Dark field microscopy is usually applied for
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  • stained preperations with irreversion cell between cochser
  • unstrained wet preparation with oil between the conduncer and the slide irreverSion
  • unstained wet properations with water between the condenser and the slide
  • ultra thin reactions of tissue

Question 102

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The subspecies group are identified on the basis of
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  • arrangement of bacteria preparation
  • gram staining
  • their antigens
  • their growth requirements

Question 103

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Which of the following component contain peptidoglycan?
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  • Gram(+) cell walls +F
  • DNA
  • Flagella
  • Cytoplasmic membrane

Question 104

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The clorax solution and ethyl alcohol are example of:
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  • sterilizing agents
  • disinfection
  • antibiotics
  • base analogs

Question 105

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Which immunoglobin contain j chain
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  • IgA and lgG
  • lgM and lgA
  • lgG and IgM
  • lgD and lgG
  • lgE

Question 106

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Which of the following are DNA viruses?
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  • adenoviruses
  • picornviruses
  • paramyxoviruses
  • orthomyoviruses

Question 107

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Which one is considered a vireal disease viral
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  • herpes simplex type 1
  • herpes simplex type 2
  • rubella vire
  • medual vire

Question 108

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Which of the following diagnostic markers persist in the blood stream of HBV infected individuals and is found an (imcatox) of infection
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  • HBsAg
  • anti-HAV antibodies
  • H-2
  • none of the above

Question 109

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All of the following statement about poliomyelitis are correct except:
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  • virus is transmitted mainly in respiratory droplets
  • most disease occur apparent sub-clinical infection
  • persistantviremiafam CNS involvement
  • spinal poliomyelitis involves the anterior born cells of the spinal cord

Question 110

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During the incubation period of the HBV infection which of the following viral diagnostic marker is most abundant in blood and is commonly used for diagnosis
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  • HBSAg
  • Anti-HAV antibodies
  • Anti-HCV antibodies

Question 111

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Influenza virus on RNA virus:
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  • True
  • False

Question 112

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Human herpes virus 2 is usually associated with:
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  • genital herpes
  • measles
  • rubelia
  • erpes zoster

Question 113

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Human immunodeficiency virus belongs to:
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  • adenoviridae
  • retroviridae
  • togruviridae
  • poxviridae

Question 114

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The presence of low levels lgG but not lgM antibodies to rubella virus in the newborn suggests:
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  • congenital infection
  • autoimmune disease
  • presence of maternal antibodies
  • allergy

Question 115

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A four fold or greater increase in autoantibody titer,measured by appropriate available viral diagnostic test and performed on serum collected at time of disease onset and 14 days later would:
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  • be highly suggestive to the presence of the disease
  • indicate previous infection in healthy person
  • not be sufficient for diagnosis
  • not be informative since the serum specimens were not collected at proper interval of time

Question 116

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Current acute HAV infection is best diagnosed by the presence of?
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  • HBgcAg
  • anti-HBcsntibodies
  • IgM anti-HAV
  • delta antigen

Question 117

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Which of the following microorganisms lack a cell wall
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  • ram positive cocci
  • gram negative rods
  • richetsia
  • mycoplasma

Question 118

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All of the following statement are characteristics for group A strepcoccus?
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  • they are rarely resistaned to paraisitis
  • they produce beta-hemolysis on blood agar
  • they are sensitive to bacitracin
  • they are of the normal environment fiera

Question 119

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Herpes virus varicella is a member of (zoster) (varicella zoster virus is member of:
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  • herpes viridae
  • poxviridae
  • hepadnaviridae
  • retroviridae

Question 120

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Which of the following Viruses cause infection mononucleosis?
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  • Herpes simplex 1
  • Epstein-barr-viruses
  • CMV
  • Varicella zoster virus

Question 121

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Type 2 hypersensitivity reactions are
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  • anaphylactic and atopic
  • comlement-mediated cytolysis
  • immune-complexes mediated
  • cell mediated with participation
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