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  1. The internationally recommended strategy for the control of tuberculosis is DOTS, which stands for:

a. Directly Observed Short-Term Strategy
b. Directly Observed Treatment Short Course
c. Directly Observable Therapy Short Course
d. Directly Observable Standard Treatment
e. Duration of Observed Treatment Short Course

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Duration of Observed Treatment Short Course

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The following are characteristics of inflammation:

a. Pain at the injured site
b. Redness
c. Increased in temperature
d. Swelling
e. All of the above

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All of the above

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Which of the ff. statements about Pnuemocystis carinii is true?

a. Antibodies are found only in infected immunocompromised hosts
b. It is a ricketssia
c. It can cause pulmonary tuberculosis
d. Pathogenic for patients with AIDS with CD4 counts of > 800 cells/mL
e. Diagnosis is through sputum smear microscopy

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Pathogenic for patients with AIDS with CD4 counts of > 800 cells/mL

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Aspergillosis is caused by:

a. Aspergillus flavus
b. Aspergillo madicuts
c. Filobasidiella sp
d. Respiratory syncytial virus
e. Adenovirus

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Aspergillus flavus

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Antibody that is produced first in
response to a anaphylactic shock.

a. IgG
b. IgA
c. IgM
d. IgD
e. IgE

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IgE

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Antibody present in breastmilk:

a. IgG
b. IgA
c. IgM
d. IgD
e. IgE

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IgA

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Type of immunity resulting from vaccination.

a. Naturally acquired passive immunity
b. Naturally acquired active immunity
c. Artificially acquired passive immunity
d. Adaptive immunity
e. Artificial acquired active
immunity

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Artificial acquired active
immunity

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A preliminary test for HIV infection

a. ELISA
b. Southern blot technique
c. Western blot technique
d. Immunophoresis
e. Immunofluorescence

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ELISA

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Effective sterilization in a biosafety cabinet, requires which of the following conditions:

a. Open flame
b. 100 C for 10 mins. c. 70% alcohol solution
d. 121C, 15psi, for 15 mins
e. 3% H2O2 solution

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70% alcohol solution

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Ionizing radiation inactivates vegetative bacteria by:

a. Driving away electrons & splitting the molecules into atoms or groups
b. Inducing thymine dimmers
c. Denaturing nucleoproteins
d. Cross-linking sugar groups
e. Inducing double-stranded breaks in DNA

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Driving away electrons & splitting the molecules into atoms or groups

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Algicide used in swimming pools

a. Crystal violet
b. Gentian violet
c. Cupric sulfate
d. Methylene blue
e. Ferric oxide

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Cupric sulfate

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Which antitubercular drug that acts on the 30S ribosomal subunits of bacteria and interferes with the binding of tRNA to ribosomes?

a. Chloramphenicol
b. Streptomycin
c. Clindamycin
d. Erythromycin
e. Lincosamide

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Streptomycin

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The first chemotherapeutic agent effective against syphilis

a. Penicillin
b. Streptomycin
c. Chloramphenicol
d. Sulfonamide
e. Salvarsan

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Salvarsan

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The original source of penicillin discovered by Fleming was a mold known as:

a. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
b. Penicillium notatum
c. Penicillium chrysogenum
d. Penicillium flavus
e. Aspergillus flavus

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Penicillium notatum

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A technique where small samples of DNA can be quickly amplified for analysis

a. Hybridoma
b. Recombinant DNA
c. Polymerase Chain Reaction
d. Cloning
e. Fluorescence

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Polymerase Chain Reaction

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The following is the first macrolide antibiotic:

Azithromycin
Streptomycin
Kanamycin
Erythromycin
Neomycin

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Erythromycin

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Cause of Hansens Disease:

Mycoplasma tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Pseudomonas tuberculosis
Mycobacterium leprae
Mycoplasma pneumonia

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Mycobacterium leprae

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Fixed macrophages that protect & reside in the liver:

Osteoclasts
Alveolar macrophages
Kupffer cells
Histocytes
Sinusoids

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Kupffer cells

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Term for programmed cell death

Perforin
Apoptosis
Cytolysis
Inflammation
Antigen presentation

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Apoptosis

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Coined the term “chemotherapy” and
was among the first scientists who
searched for the “magic bullet” * Paul Ehrlich
Alexander Fleming
Selman Waksman
George Domagk
Heide Schulz

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Referred to as inactivated toxins that act as vaccines:

Axotoxins
Endotoxins
Toxoids
Subunit vaccines
Inactivated vaccines

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Toxoids

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Coined the term “chemotherapy” and
was among the first scientists who searched for the “magic bullet”

Paul Ehrlich
Alexander Fleming
Selman Waksman
George Domagk
Heide Schulz

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Paul Ehrlich

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Collective term for microbes on and inside human bodies:

Microbial count
Too numerous to count
Normal microbiota
Microbiofilm
Biological flora

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Biological flora

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Cause of Lyme disease:

Borrelia burgdorferi
Candida albicans
Salmonella typhi
Limulus polyhemus
Treponema pallidum

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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The following are steps in the occurrence of inflammation, EXCEPT:

Tissue response
Production of interferon
Phagocyte migration
Tissue repair
Vasodilation

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Tissue repair

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The following are DNA virus Varicella Zoster.

HIV
Flu virus
Rabies
Chicken pox virus
Ebola virus

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Chicken pox virus

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Type 1 hypersensitivity reactions
that occur immediately upon re- exposure of a sensitized individual to an
antigen: * Delayed hypersensitivity reactions
Cytotoxic reactions
Anaphylactic reactions
Immune complex reactions
Cell-mediated reactions

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