Micro BB

Question 1

The antiviral which is given to untreated pregnant women with HIV to prevent vertical transmission of the virus during childbirth.

Answer 1

Nevirapine

Question 2

Which option inhibits the action of viral DNA polymerase?

Answer 2

acyclovir triphosphate

Question 3

Ribavirin, a synthetic nucleoside that acts as an RNA polymerase inhibitor, is similar in structure to which of the options given above?

Answer 3

guanosine

Question 4

Valaciclovir, a prodrug of aciclovir, is used to treat patients with which viral disease in the list, above?

Answer 4

varicella zoster virus

Question 5

Used for the treatment of severe, resistant herpes infections

Answer 5

foscarnet

Question 6

A drug that is effective against influenza A but not influenza B

Answer 6

amantidine

Question 7

A purine nucleoside analogue that selects specifically for thymidine kinase

Answer 7

acyclovir

Question 8

A nucleoside analogue which inhibits reverse transcriptase

Answer 8

zidovudine

Question 9

The drug which can be delivered by inhalation to treat both influenza A and B.

Answer 9

zanamivir

Question 10

The drug which works by attenuating or preventing rabies or hepatitis, following a known exposure but before the onset of signs and symptoms.

Answer 10

human specific immunoglobulin

Question 11

A forty year old ornithologist presents with malaise, muscular pains and a cough. On examination he has a fever and several distinctive rose spots on his abdomen. Chest x-ray reveals a diffuse pneumonia.

Answer 11

C. psittaci

Question 12

A 35 year old clown who is a specialist in bird/clown comedy is found to have an atypical pneumonia which is treated with Augmentin and Clarythromicin

Answer 12

C. psittaci

Question 13

Disease associated with Cytomegalovirus

Answer 13

pneumonitis

Question 14

disease associated with Herpes Simplex Type 2

Answer 14

neonatal infection associated with vaginal injury

Question 15

Pneumonitis after a bone marrow transplant

Answer 15

CMV

Question 16

Endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma

Answer 16

EBV

Question 17

Acute necrotising encephalitis

Answer 17

HSV1

Question 18

pale rigid lesions on the side of her tongue, previous IVDU

Answer 18

hairy cell leukoplakia

Question 19

infected insect bite, penicillin allergy

Answer 19

erythromycin

Question 20

Patient with an abdominal collection that contains gram –ve anaerobes

Answer 20

metronidazole

Question 21

endocarditis caused by VRE.

Answer 21

Linezolid

Question 22

A 6 month old child whose father has just been diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Answer 22

Isoniazid

Question 23

Infection with this microbe produces pseudomembranous colitis.

Answer 23

C. diff

Question 24

stools appear to contain numerous cysts.

Answer 24

giardiasis

Question 25

Following a trip to Brazil, a patient develops bloody diarrhoea, with a high fever, sweating and on examination the patient is found to have RUQ pain.

Answer 25

entamoeba hystolytica

Question 26

A 40 year old homosexual man develops severe flatulence, accompanied by bloating and explosive diarrhoea.

Answer 26

giardia lamblia

Question 27

A toxin-mediated organism that does not damage or invade the gastrointestinal epithelium

Answer 27

cholera