Core microbiology

Question 1

Condition due to chronic fungal infection

Answer 1

Aspergillosis

Question 2

Commonly used triazole drug

Answer 2

Fluconazole

Question 3

Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor which analogue of thymidine?

Answer 3

Zidovudine

Question 4

Drug used to treat CMV?

Answer 4

Ganciclovir

Question 5

Component of fungal cell membranes?

Answer 5

Ergesterol

Question 6

Group of bacteria which may aquire resistance to vancomycin?

Answer 6

Enterococci

Question 7

Common outbreaks of diarrhoea and vomiting?

Answer 7

Norovirus

Question 8

Method of removing sufficient numbers of potential harmful micro-organsisms making an item safe for use

Answer 8

Disinfection

Question 9

Drug commonly used to to treat anaerobic bacterial infections?

Answer 9

Metronidazole

Question 10

Continent with greatest number of newly infected individuals with HIV?

Answer 10

Africa

Question 11

What drug is MRSA resistant to?

Answer 11

Meticillin

Question 12

Main component of bacteria cell wall?

Answer 12

Peptidoglycan

Question 13

Type of protein synthesis antibiotic which inhibits rna translation?

Answer 13

Tetracycline

Question 14

Virus largely responsible for the common cold?

Answer 14

Rhinovirus

Question 15

Exposing single use disposable equipment to ionising radiation is a form of?

Answer 15

Sterilisation

Question 16

An association in which a parasite is deriving benefit WITHOUT causing injuey to the host?

Answer 16

Commensalism

Question 17

Giardia lambia is what kind of protozoa?

Answer 17

Flagellate

Question 18

Notifiable disease caused my a paramyxovirus preceded by kopliks spots?

Answer 18

Measles

Question 19

Dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor commonly used for treatment of urinary tract infections?

Answer 19

Trimethroprim

Question 20

A method of reducing susceptibility to infection?

Answer 20

Immunisation

Question 21

Parasitic infection associated with bladder cancer

Answer 21

Schistosomiasis

Question 22

Adverse effect of azoles?

Answer 22

Hepatotoxicity

Question 23

Enables horrizantal transfer of resistance?

Answer 23

Transposons

Question 24

A process of gathering info to ensure that diesease outbreaks are pre-empted or identified early?

Answer 24

Surveillance

Question 25

Parasitic disease causes diarrhoea

Answer 25

cryptosporidiosis

Question 26

Mild viral diesease causing non specific rash which causes pregnancy risk?

Answer 26

Rubella

Question 27

Last line treatment for multi resistant enterobacteriae

Answer 27

meropenem

Question 28

Type of non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor?

Answer 28

Nevirapine