Description : The part of life cycle of malarial parasite Plasmodium vivax, that is passed in female Anopheles is (a) sexual cycle (b) pre-erythrocytic schizogony (c) exoerythrocytic schizogony (d) post-erythrocytic schizogony.
Last Answer : (a) sexual cycle
Description : Plasmodium, the malarial parasite, belongs to class (a) sarcodina (b) ciliata (c) sporozoa (d) dinophyceae.
Last Answer : (c) sporozoa
Description : Which one of the following types of malaria is pernicious malaria? (1) Vivax (2) Ralapse (3) Tertian (4) Malignant
Last Answer : (4) Malignant Explanation: Pernicious malaria is always caused by Plasmodium falciparum and characterized by severe malarial paroxysms that recur about every 48 hours and of-ten by acute cerebral, renal, or gastrointestinal manifestations. It is also called malignant tertian malaria.
Description : Which one of the following types of malaria is pernicious malaria ? (1) Vivax (2) Ralapse (3) Tertian (4) Malignant
Last Answer : Malignant
Description : The infective stage of malarial parasite, Plasmodium that enters human body is (a) merozoite (b) sporozoite (c) trophozoite (d) minuta form.
Last Answer : b) sporozoite
Description : Use of artemisinin derivatives is restricted to treatment of multidrug resistant falciparum malaria because: A. Wide spread use for all cases of malaria may foster development of resistant strains B. They are not ... P.vivax C. They are more toxic than quinine D. All of the above are correct
Last Answer : A. Wide spread use for all cases of malaria may foster development of resistant strain
Description : Choose the drug whose single oral dose affords clinical cure of uncomplicated malaria caused by chloroquine sensitive/resistant P.falciparum as well as P. vivax: A. Quinine B. Mefloquine C. Artesunate D. Proguanil
Last Answer : B. Mefloquine
Description : Chloroquine acts as: A. Preerythrocytic schizontocide for both P. falciparum and P. vivax B. Erythrocytic schizontocide for both P. falciparum and P. vivax C. Exoerythrocytic schizontocide for P. vivax D. Gametocidal for P. falciparum
Last Answer : B. Erythrocytic schizontocide for both P. falciparum and P. vivax
Description : Choose the antimalarial drug effective against multidrug resistant P. falciparum, which rapidly terminates an attack of malarial fever, but has a short duration of action, so that recrudescence is common: A. Proguanil B. Mefloquine C. Amodiaquine D. Artemisinin
Last Answer : D. Artemisinin
Description : The following drug is a causal prophylactic for falciparum malaria and suppressive prophylactic for vivax malaria: A. Chloroquine B. Mepacrine C. Quinine D. Proguanil
Last Answer : D. Proguanil
Description : Select the drug which is a causal prophylactic for both falciparum and vivax malaria but is not used as prophylactic on mass scale due to risk of severe reaction in some individuals: A. Mefloquine B. Amodiaquine C. Primaquine D. Pyrimethamine
Last Answer : C. Primaquine
Description : Which one of the following organisms is scientifically correctly named, correctly printed according to the International Rules of Nomenclature and correctly described? (a) Musca domestica - the common ... ) E.coli - full name Entamoeba coli, a commonly occurring bacterium in human intestine.
Last Answer : (b) Plasmodium falciparum - a protozoan pathogen causing the most serious type of malaria
Description : Identify the drug which is NOT used in the treatment of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum : (A.) Artemisinin (B) Primaquine (C) Quinine (D) Mefloquine
Last Answer : (B) Primaquine
Description : Assertion : Plasmodium vivax is responsible for malaria. Reason : Malaria is caused by polluted water.
Last Answer : Assertion : Plasmodium vivax is responsible for malaria. Reason : Malaria is caused by polluted water. ... If both the assertion and reason are false
Description : A bite of tse-tse fly may pass to humans (a) Leishmania donovani (b) Trypanosoma gambiense (c) Entamoeba histolytica (d) Plasmodium vivax.
Last Answer : (b) Trypanosoma gambiense
Description : African sleeping sickness is due to (a) Plasmodium vivax transmitted by tse-tse fly (b) Trypanosoma lewsii transmitted by bed bug (c) Trypanosoma gambiense transmitted by Glossina palpalis (d) Entamoeba gingivalis spread by housefly
Last Answer : (c) Trypanosoma gambiense transmitted by Glossina palpalis
Description : Which one of the following options gives the correct match of a disease with its causative organism and mode of infection? Disease Causative Mode of organism infection (a) Typhoid Salmonella ... infected bancrofti water and food (d) Malaria Plasmodium Bite of male vivax Anopheles mosquito
Last Answer : (a) Typhoid Salmonella With inspired typhi air
Description : Identify the correct pair representing the causative agent of typhoid fever and the confirmatory test for typhoid. (a) Salmonella typhi / Widal test (b) Plasmodium vivax / UTI test (c) Streptococcus pneumoniae / Widal test (d) Salmonella typhi / Anthrone test
Last Answer : (a) Salmonella typhi / Widal test
Description : In which of the following animals dimorphic nucleus is found? (a) Amoeba proteus (b) Trypanosoma gambiense (c) Plasmodium vivax (d) Paramecium caudatum
Last Answer : (d) Paramecium caudatum
Description : This opportunistic protozoan causes primary meningoencephalitis (PAM). a. Plasmodium Vivax b. Toxoplasma Gondil c. Naegieria Fowleri d. Paragonimus Westermani e. Entamoeba Histolytica
Last Answer : c. Naegieria Fowleri
Description : $ Male anopheles acts as the carrier host for malarial parasite ! Sleeping Sickness is caused by Leishmonia.
Last Answer : $ Male anopheles acts as the carrier host for malarial parasite ! Sleeping Sickness is caused by Leishmonia. ... wrong D. If both As and R are wrong.
Description : $ Secondary host of Taenia solium is pig. ! Malarial parasite completes its life cycle in the blood of human beings alone.
Last Answer : $ Secondary host of Taenia solium is pig. ! Malarial parasite completes its life cycle in the blood of human ... wrong D. If both As and R are wrong.
Description : The duration 19-21 days refers to: (1) incubation period of hen's egg (2) average life-span of a red blood cell in humans (3) the period of menstrual cycle soon after menstruation, during ... to occur (4) period of completion of one schizogony cycle of malarial parasite inside a red blood cell
Last Answer : (3) the period of menstrual cy-cle soon after menstruation, during which fertilisation is most likely to occur Explanation: The menstrual cycle is the scientific term for the physiological changes ... 21 days or more between a woman's shortest and longest cycle lengths is considered very irregular
Description : Which one of the following is the infective stage of the Malarial Parasite? (1) schigozoite (2) trophozoite (3) sporoblast (4) sporozoite
Last Answer : (4) sporozoite Explanation: When a mosquito sucks the blood of a person who has malaria parasites in his or her blood, the mosquito picks male and female gametocytes where they undergo ... parasites in the mosquito. This process takes about 10 -14 days depending on environmental temperature.
Description : Who discovered Malarial parasite?
Last Answer : Ronald Ross
Description : Where will you look for the sporozoites of the malarial parasite? (a) Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito (b) Red blood corpuscles of human suffering from malaria (c) Spleen of infected humans (d) Salivary glands of freshy moulted female Anopheles mosquito
Last Answer : (a) Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito
Description : Which group of animals belong to the same phylum? (a) Prawn, Scorpion, Locusta (b) Sponge, Sea anemone, Starfish (c) Malarial parasite, Amoeba, Mosquito (d) Earthworm, Pinworm, Tapeworm
Last Answer : (a) Prawn, Scorpion, Locusta
Description : The ________form of the malarial parasite enters the human blood while The_____ enters the mosquito. a. Sporozoites; Merozoites b. Merozoites; Gametocytes c. Merozoites; Sporozoites d. Sporozoites; Gametocytes
Last Answer : d. Sporozoites; Gametocytes
Description : The following antimalarial drug is more active against pre-and exoerythrocytic stages of the malarial parasite than against the erythrocytic stage: A. Proguanil B. Primaquine C. Pyrimethamine D. Halofantrine
Last Answer : B. Primaquine
Description : n addition to malarial parasite, chloroquine is active against: A. Microfilariae B. Trichomonas vaginalis C. Entamoeba histolytica D. Dermatophytes
Last Answer : C. Entamoeba histolytica
Description : If a drug is active against the preerythrocytic stage of the malarial parasite it will be useful as a: A. Suppressive prophylactic B. Causal prophylactic C. Clinical curative D. Radical curative
Last Answer : B. Causal prophylactic
Last Answer : sporozoite
Last Answer : the period of menstrual cycle soon after menstruation, during which fertilisation is most likely to occur
Description : A person suffering from a disease caused by Plasmodium, experiences recurring chill and fever at the time when (a) the sporozoites released from RBCs are being rapidly killed and broken down ... to enter fresh RBCs (d) the microgametocytes and megagametocytes are being destroyed by the WBCs
Last Answer : (c) the parasite after its rapid multiplication inside RBCs ruptures them, releasing the stage to enter fresh RBCs
Description : The remainenet of formen ovale (Fossa Ovalis) is located in `:-`
Last Answer : The remainenet of formen ovale (Fossa Ovalis) is located in `:-` A. Inter atrial septum B ... Between pulmonary & Aortic arches D. Superior vena Cava
Description : Pyrimethamine + sulfadoxine should be used as a: A. Clinical curative in areas with chloroquine resistant malaria B. Clinical curative in areas without chloroquine resistance among P. falciparum C. Prophylactic in areas with or without chloroquine resistance D. All of the above
Last Answer : A. Clinical curative in areas with chloroquine resistant malaria
Description : elect the drug/combination that you will prescribe as a prophylactic to a resident of non-endemic area who got posted for 6 months to an endemic area with low degree chloroquine resistance among P. falciparum: A. Quinine B. Proguanil + Chloroquine C. Pyrimethamine + Sulfadoxine D. Artemisinin
Last Answer : B. Proguanil + Chloroquine
Description : The drug of choice for cerebral malaria due to P. falciparum is: A. Quinine B. Mefloquine C. Chloroquine D. Pyrimethamine + Sulfadoxine
Last Answer : A. Quinine
Description : The following is true of mefloquine: A. P. falciparum does not develop resistance to mefloquine B. Concurrent use of β blockers with mefloquine is contraindicated C. Neuropsychiatric reactions are the most important adverse effects of mefloquine D. All of the above
Last Answer : C. Neuropsychiatric reactions are the most important adverse effects of mefloquine
Description : The regimens recommended for treatment of chloroquine resistant P.falciparum malaria in an adult include the following except: A. Quinine 10 mg/kg/8 hourly+ doxycycline 100 mg/day for 7 days B. Quinine 10 mg/kg ... 7 days D. Artemether 80 mg i.m./twice on first day followed by once daily for 4 days
Last Answer : C. Mefloquine 0.5 g daily for 7 days
Description : Select the correct statement about primaquine: A. It has no role in falciparum malaria B. It is used as a gametocidal drug in falciparum malaria C. It is combined with chloroquine to treat resistant P. falciparum infection D. It is used to prevent recrudescence of falciparum malaria
Last Answer : B. It is used as a gametocidal drug in falciparum malaria
Description : Chloroquine resistant P. falciparum malaria can be cured by the following drugs except: A. Quinine B. Pyrimethamine + sulfadoxine C. Primaquine D. Artesunate
Description : An adult male living in nonmalarious area has to visit an area where chloroquine resistant P. falciparum is prevalent. He is intolerant to mefloquine and his G6PD status is unknown. Select the ... you will prescribe for prophylaxis of malaria: A. Primaquine B. Doxycycline C. Amodiaquine D. Quinine
Last Answer : B. Doxycycline
Description : The following is true of quinine: A. It has a longer elimination half-life than chloroquine B. It is not to be used for prophylaxis of malaria C. It is not active against P. vivax D. It should not be used along with sulfa-pyrimethamine
Last Answer : B. It is not to be used for prophylaxis of malaria
Description : Erythrocytic schizontocide antimalarial drugs are used as: A. Suppressive prophylactic B. Clinical curative C. Radical curative for P.vivax D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Last Answer : D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Description : 1. The anti-malarial drug Quinine is made from a plant. Which is that plant? 2. Who is entitled to initiate a Bill for Constitutional Amendments? 3. What is a strong argument for the particle ... rainfall? 20. Which was the most important kingdom after the Maury in the-Deccan and Central India?
Last Answer : Answer : 1. Cinchona 2. Either House of Parliament 3. They are cast shadow 4. The same day at 7.30 a.m. 5. Vamsathapakasini 6. Maastricht Treaty 7. Because it is acidic 8. ... 15. Cholas 16. Thermal power plants 17. Respiration 18. Constituent Assembly 19. Orographic rainfall 20. Satavahanas
Description : Which of the following belongs to the class of pepsin and trypsin (C.P.M.T.84) (a) Rennin (b) protein (c) Thyroxin (d) Secretin
Last Answer : (a) Rennin
Description : When the results of a Pap smear are reported as class 5, the nurse recognizes that the common interpretation is a) malignant. A class 5 Pap smear, according to the Bethesda Classification, ... is interpreted as probably normal. d) suspicious. A class 3 Pap smear is interpreted as suspicious.
Last Answer : a) malignant. A class 5 Pap smear, according to the Bethesda Classification, indicates squamous cell carcinoma.
Description : DIC can occur in all of the following except Options: 1) Placenta Praevia 2) Haemophilia 3) Falciparum Malaria 4) Snake Bite
Last Answer : Correct Answer: 2) Haemophilia
Description : Recrudescences attending 3 day artesunate therapy of chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria can be prevented by combining it with a single dose of: A. Quinine B. Primaquine C. Tetracycline D. Mefloquine
Last Answer : D. Mefloquine