Epidemiology

Question 1

Infections transmitted to man from vertebrate animals are known as:

Answer 1

Anthropozoonoses

Question 2

Endemic Disease’ means that a disease:

Answer 2

Is constantly present in a given population group

Question 3

Occurrence of a disease in a haphazard and irregular pattern is known as:

Answer 3

Sporadic

Question 4

Sentinel surveillance is done to detect

Answer 4

Missing number of cases

Question 5

The ability of an infectious agent to invade and multiply in a host is called

Answer 5

Infectivity

Question 6

Disease infectious before onset of symptoms is:

Answer 6

Measles

Question 7

Disease imported in a country, which was not otherwise present?

Answer 7

Exotic disease

Question 8

Mites are the vectors of

Answer 8

Scabies
Scrub typhus
Rickettsial pox

Question 9

Pyrethrum is a

Answer 9

Contact poison

Question 10

Example of cyclopropagative transmission is:

Answer 10

Malarial parasite in mosquito

Question 11

Cyclopropagative transmission

Answer 11

Agent changes in form and number

Question 12

Agent merely multiples in vector, but no change in form:

Answer 12

Propagative transmission

Question 13

Agent undergoes only development but no multiplication

Answer 13

Cyclodevelopmental transmission

Question 14

statements about mosquito

Answer 14

It is a definitive host in malaria
Its life cycle is completed in 3 weeks
The female can travel upto 3 kilometers

Question 15

Babesiosis is transmitted by:

Answer 15

Tick

Question 16

diseases are caused by Soft Tick

Answer 16

Q fever
Relapsing fever
KFD

Question 17

Flight range for Aedes Mosquito is

Answer 17

100 METERS

Question 18

Normal life span of mosquitoes is:

Answer 18

8-34 days

Question 19

Drug of choice for Scabies is:

Answer 19

5% Permethrin

Question 20

Scabies is transmitted by:

Answer 20

Mite

Question 21

Aedes mosquito transmit

Answer 21

(a) Yellow fever
(b) Dengue fever
(c) Chikungunya fever

Question 22

Fenthion

Answer 22

Organophosphate insecticides