Herpes Viruses

Question 1

11)what is the cause of shingles? (‘15 final)
A) Molluscum contagisum
B) Varicella zoster
C) Cytomegalovirus

Answer 1

B) Varicella zoster

Question 2

Which of the following is true regarding an HSV-1 infection in toddlers?
A) It increases the risk of developing cancer in later life
B) It results in a disseminated rash
C) The virus remains latent in the trigeminal ganglia

Answer 2

C) The virus remains latent in the trigeminal ganglia

Question 3

What is true about zoster virus?

Answer 3

Reactivation cause Ramsay-Hunt syndrome..

Question 4

Which of the following is true regarding an HSV-1 infection in toddlers.
The virus remains latent in the trigeminal ganglia
It increases the risk of developing cancer in later life
It results in a disseminated rash

Answer 4

The virus remains latent in the trigeminal ganglia

Question 5

What is true about HSV-2?(FB2 2013)

Answer 5

Associated with newborn encephalitis

Question 6

Which of the following causes pneumonitis in kidney transplant patients?(FB2 2013)
A. CMV
B.VZV

Answer 6

CMV

Question 7

How is herpes simplex virus-1 transmitted? (Final 2013)
A. Exchange of body fluids
B. Direct contact

Answer 7

Direct contact

Question 8

What is characterized by pain on eating and drinking, bleeding from gums, high fever, and extensive ulceration in the tongue, palate and buccal area?( FB2 2014 ) 
A) keratitis
B) primary herpetic gingivosomatitis
C) herpes labialis
D) Eczema herpeticum

Answer 8

primary herpetic gingivosomatitis

Question 9

Which of the following viruses causes latent infection in neurons? ( FB2 2014 )
A) adenovirus
B) herpesvirus

Answer 9

herpesvirus