Mac 1: Pre Flashcards

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In Epidemiology, when a disease rate worldwide is reduced permanently to zero, this is often called as?

  • Reduction
  • Prevention and Control
  • Eradication
  • Elimination
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Eradication

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What type of biological vectors transmits malaria?

  • House Flies
  • Sandflies
  • Ticks
  • Mosquitoes
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Mosquitoes

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What effect of parasites to host responsible in causing Anemia or vitamin deficiency?

  • Nutrient Deprivation
  • Tissue Invasive and Destruction
  • Genetic Make Up
  • Parasitic Enzymes
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Nutrient Deprivation

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What type of WBCs usually increases during parasitic infection?

  • Eosinophil
  • Basophil
  • Lymphocyte
  • Neutrophil
  • Monocyte
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Eosinophil

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What group of medically important parasites has a cyst and trophozoite forms?

  • Cestodes
  • Protozoans
  • Trematodes
  • Nematoes
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Protozoans

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When a parasite dwells outside the body of the host (e.g. Human lice) it is called as?

  • Ectoparasite
  • Endoparasite
  • Free Living Parasite
  • Erratic Parasite
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Ectoparasite

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What type of evasive mechanism do parasites exhibit when they copy antigen similar to the host?

  • Immune suppression
  • Antigenic variation
  • Resistance to immune response
  • Host Mimicry
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Host Mimicry

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What specific area of microbiology studies the dependence of two organism to each other?

  • Parasitology
  • Helminthology
  • Protozoology
  • Symbiosis
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Parasitology

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When the infected host becomes also the direct source of infection, this is also referred as?

  • Retroinfection
  • Autoinfection
  • Superinfection
  • Reinfection
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Autoinfection

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What is the acronym of ERR stands for?

  • Evident Efficacy Rate
  • Epidemiologic Reduction Rate
  • Effectiveness Result Range
  • Egg Reduction Rate
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Egg Reduction Rate

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What group of medically important parasites appears ribbon-like in which they are also called as tapeworms

  • Trematodes
  • Arthropods
  • Cestodes
  • Protozoans
  • Nematodes
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Cestodes

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What is referred when the parasite only infects a restricted range of host, sometimes only one host species?

  • Trophicity
  • Hyperparasitism
  • Host-Parasite Interaction
  • Host Specificity
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Host Specificity

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What type of symbiosis is shown when two species benefits from their relationship without harming the other?

  • Mutualism
  • Parasitism
  • Commensalism
  • Symbiosis
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Commensalism

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In an instance that the parasitic estacobes itself in a habitat where it does not ordinary live, What parasite is described?

  • Permanent Parasite
  • Spurious Parasite
  • Incidental Parasite
  • Facultative Parasite
  • Obligate Parasite
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Incidental Parasite

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