PACOP REVIEWER

Question 1

Internationally recomended strategy for the control of tubercolosis

Answer 1

DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course)

Question 2

Five components of DOTS

Answer 2

Sustained financial and political commitment, Diagnosis by quality-ensured sputum smear microscopy, Stadardized anti-TB, Regular uninterrupted of quality of anti-tb

Question 3

Classification of diptheria toxin

Answer 3

Cytotoxin

Question 4

Classification of inflammation

Answer 4

Pain at the injured site, Increase in temperature, Redness and Swelling

Question 5

Graft from twin brother to sister

Answer 5

Isograft

Question 6

Major Histocompatibility Complex

Answer 6

Only identical twins have the same MHCs

Question 7

Virus that infect E. Coli

Answer 7

Coliphages

Question 8

Pneumocystis carnii

Answer 8

Antibodies are found only in infected immunocomprmised hosts

Question 9

CA of Aspegillosis

Answer 9

Aspergillos flavus

Question 10

A primary zoonotic disease that is associated with ingestion of contaminated milk

Answer 10

Brucellosis

Question 11

Antibody that is produced first in response to a primary infection

Answer 11

IgM

Question 12

Antibody present in breastmilk

Answer 12

IgA

Question 13

Type of immunity resulting from vacination

Answer 13

Artificially acquired active immunity

Question 14

Confirmatory test for HIV infection

Answer 14

Western blot technique

Question 15

Effective sterilization of a dental instrument used in a patient reported to be infected with AIDS

Answer 15

121°C, 15 psi for 15 minutes

Question 16

Effective sterilization of a dental instrument used in a patient reported to be infected with AIDS

Answer 16

121°C, 15 psi for 15 minutes

Question 17

Ionization radiation of inactivates vegetative bacteria

Answer 17

Driving away electrons and splitting the molecules into atoms

Question 18

Membrane pore size necessary to filter out most rigid bacteria is

Answer 18

0.20 mm

Question 19

Lab method used to show induced mutation

Answer 19

Ames test

Question 20

Process of gebe transfer responsible for antibiotic resistance

Answer 20

Conjugation and Transposon insertion

Question 21

Algicide used in swimming pool

Answer 21

Cupric sulfate

Question 22

Change in DNA which results in an insertion or deletion of one or more bases

Answer 22

Frameshift mutation

Question 23

Bacterial genes that may code for drug resistance

Answer 23

R factors

Question 24

Antibiotic acts on 30S ribosomal subunit of bacteria and interferes with the bonding of tRNA to ribosomes

Answer 24

Streptomycin

Question 25

Any mutant microorganism with a nutritional requirement that is absent in the parent microorganism

Answer 25

Auxotroph

Question 26

Bacterium used in Ames Test

Answer 26

Auxotrophic Salmonella typhimurium