PSM Flashcards

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Histogram is used for?

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Continuous quantitative data

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Line diagram is used for?

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Time trend

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Scatter plot is used for?

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Correlation - ecological study

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Spot map is used for?

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Geographic distribution

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What is most affected when outliers are present?

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Mean = sum of all/total of all
Arythematic mean

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What is most preferred when outliers are present?

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Median

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What is least affected when outliers are present?

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Mode (most occurring value)

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What is harmonic mean?

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Reciprocal of Arythematic mean

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What is geometric mean?

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Mean taken on log scale
when values change exponentially

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What is weighted mean?

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When certain values in data are more important

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11
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Mean +/-1 SD covers?

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68.3%

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12
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Mean +/-2 SD covers?

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95.4%

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Mean +/-3 SD covers?

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99.7%

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How to calculate single mode in a bimodal distribution?

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3Median-2Mean

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15
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Left skewed distribution MMM location?

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Mean-Median-Mode

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16
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Right skewed distribution MMM location?

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Mode-Median-Mean

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Inter-Quartile range (IQR) formula?

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Q3-Q1

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18
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HDI pneumonic

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KIL at birth
Knowledge
Income
Life expectancy at birth

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Physical Quality of Life index pneumonic?

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ILL at 1 year
IMR - infant morality rate
Literacy
Life expectancy at 1 year

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Global hunger index penumonic?

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MMM
Mortality under 5
Malnutrition under 5
Malnutrition in overall population

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Multidimensional Poverty Index pneumonic?

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HEL
Health - Malnutrition, child mortality
Education - year of schooling and attendance
Living standard - Housing, sanitation, water, electricity, cooking fuel, assets

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Quarantine is done for/and how long?

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Healthy contacts up until incubation period.

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Isolation is done for/and how long?

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Cases up until period of communicability.

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24
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Maternal death according to WHO is?

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During and after pregnancy upto 6 weeks

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Blood bag is discarded in which color bag?
Yellow
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Female spermicidal contraceptive?
Nonoxynol
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Which test not done before blood transfusion?
Hep A
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What does base denote in a population pyramid?
Fertility
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Relative risk can be directly determined in?
Cohort study
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Which toxin is present in khesari dal? And it causes?
BOAA - Lathyrism
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Vaccine given at birth?
BCG, OPV, Hep B
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Indicator used to compare life expectancy between two countries?
HDI
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Minimum antenatal visits according to WHO?
4
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What is disposed in blue colored container?
Contaminated Glassware
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What is disposed in white colored container
Sharps - puncture proof container
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What is disposed in red colored container
Recyclable plastic contaminated waste
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What is disposed in yellow colored container
Anatomical, biological and chemical waste
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Home based pregnancy kit provided by GOI?
Nischay
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Causative agent of Donovanosis/Granuloma inguinale) is?
Klebsiella Granulomatis
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Which secondary/reinfection causes immunological catastrophe?
Dengue
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MTP is permitted upto what week after MTP act 2021?
24 weeks (old 20 weeks)
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What is colostrum? And what does it contain?
First human breast milk - has high AA, mineral and IgA content
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Pellagra is coming in people with what kind of diet?
Maize eater
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Therapeutic dose of chroloquine? And it's used on which causative agent case?
25 mg/kg - P. Vivax
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Malaria due to P. Falciparum is treated with?
IV Artesunate
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Measure of disease prevalence in a society?
DALY
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HPV Vaccine is based on?
L1 and L2 proteins in virus capsid
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Discrete probability of given number of events in a fixed interval is?
Poisson's distribution
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Breast quantitative method to study previous research study is?
Meta-analysis
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Heat sensitive device on vaccine vial is known as?
VVM - Vaccine Vial Monitor - monitors heat exposure through a gradual change in color
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Trans-placental transmission with microcephaly is seen in?
Zika virus
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Highest thermic effect is seen in?
Protein diet
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Father of public health, and what did he recognize?
John snow, cholera
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Father of modern epidemiology?
John snow
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Father of medicine/ first true epidemiologist?
Hippocrates
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PQLI lies between?
0-100
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HDI value is?
0-1
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Iceberg phenomenon is shown by?
TB
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Iceberg phenomenon is not shown by?
Rabies, Tetanus, Measles, Rubella
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Changes in disease occurrence over a long period of time is known as?
Secular trend
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In which trend pandemic occurs every few years/specified time?
Cyclic trend
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Active surveillance is?
House to house
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Passive surveillance is?
In hospital
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Sentinel surveillance is?
For missed cases - sentinel site
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Primordial prevention is?
Before risk factor, Health education, best for non-communicable diseases
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Primary prevention is?
Before disease and risk factor present, health promotion specific protection, both pre and post exposure
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Handwashing is which prevention?
Primary
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Secondary prevention is?
Disease in early stage, early diagnosis and treatment, screening
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Tertiary prevention is?
Disease beyond early stage, disability limitation and rehabilitation
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Epidemiological triad has?
Agent, host and environment
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Epidemiological triangle has?
Agent, host and environment + TIME
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Advanced Epidemiological triangle has?
Causative factor, environment and Population
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Wheel of causation has?
Social + physical + biological +genetic factors
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Goal-3 states?
3.1 By 2030 decrease MMR by 70/1 lac 3.2 By 2030 decrease NMR by 12/1000 By 2030 decrease USME by 25/1000 3.3 Epidemic of HMT (HIV, malaria, TB) 3.4 Decrease 1/3rd deaths due to non-communicable disease
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Sustainable developmental goal has how many goals?
17 goals Goal 3 health related, 2015-2030
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Morbidity indicators are?
Incidence = no of new cases/population at risk * 1000 - cohort Prevalence = new + old cases/total population * 100 - cross sectional
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Prevalence can be studied by which study?
Cross sectional analysis
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Incidence can be studied by which study?
Cohort study
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Incidence can calculate ______ and _______.
Attack and secondary attack rate
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Prevalence can calculate ______ and _______.
Point prevalence and period prevalence
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Recent India death rate?
6/1000
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Crude death rate SP?
Very unspecific
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Specific death rate SP?
At risk population
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Proportional mortality rate SP?
Burden of disease
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Case fatality rate SP?
Virulence/killing power
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Survival rate SP?
Prognosis and compare treatment
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Standardization types and uses?
Direct used when we know ASDR Indirect when we don't know ASDR
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Case report is?
Rare clinical finding of 1 patient
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Case series is?
Rare clinical finding of group of patients
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Retrospective cohort study is?
It uses preexisting secondary research data to examine the relationship between an exposure and an outcome
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Ecological study is also known as?
Correlational study, it is weakest study design
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Ecological study's drawback?
Ecological fallacy
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Case control study details?
Effect to cause Recall bias (won't remember no of cigarettes smoked) Cheap and time saving so suitable for rare disease
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Cohort study details?
Cause to effect Time and money consuming Hawthrone bias - behavior change under observation - yaar badal na jana Natural history of case known Temporal association and single exposure causing multiple disease also known as
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Cross sectional study is?
Single snapshot study NO FOLLOWUP gives prevalence and distribution of study No comment on natural history or temporal association of the disease
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Retrospective Cohort study example?
History of exposure from factory records
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Odds ratio is found in?
Case control study Cross product ratio AD/BC
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Relative risk is found in?
Cohort study Incidence (exposed)/Incidence (non-exposed)
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Types of random sampling?
Simple random Systematic random Stratified random Cluster random
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Types of non-random sampling?
Convenient sampling Quota sampling Snowball sampling
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Step done after the study is done?
Stratification
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Framingham study is?
Prospective cohort
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Incidence can be calculated by?
Cohort study
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Hospital patient admission rate differs in different hospitals with different diseases, which bias is it?
Berkesonian bias
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Relative risk calculation is done for which study?
Cohort study
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Immunization is which type of prevention?
Primary
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All diagnostic and screening tests are what type of prevention?
Secondary
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What is best for prevention of risk factor?
Primordial
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Indicative of severity/lethality of disease?
Case fatality rate
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Long term changes seen in a disease is which trend?
Secular trend
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Sample registration system includes?
Crude birth rate Rude death rate Natural growth rate Infant mortality rate
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Yellow fever vaccine is valid for?
Life long
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Prevalence is associated with?
Positive predictive value
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BCG is diluted in?
Normal saline
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In a baby on steroids, live vaccine can be given after?
4 weeks
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Vaccine that's not contraindicated in pregnancy?
Yellow fever
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Food poisoning is an example of?
Point source epidemic
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Propagated source epidemic is?
P2P transmission
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Common source epidemic is?
Multiple exposures
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Diabetes, HTN or CAD screening should be started after what age?
45 years - secondary prevention
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Neonatal tetanus prevention is best done by?
Tetanus toxoid - primary prevention
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Only vaccine that's given to adults?
dT - diphtheria tetanus
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Steps taken by medical officer in epidemic?
Diagnosis - confirm epidemic if it exists - find risk population -find no of cases - diagnosis and submit
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General fertility rate is?
No of live birth per 1000 women in reproductive age group in a given year
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General martial fertility rate is?
Number of live births per 1000 married women in reproductive age in a given year
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Female reproductive age?
15-49
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Gross reproduction rate is?
Average no of girls that would be born to a woman is she experiences current fertility pattern throughout her reproductive age
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Total fertility rate is?
Average no of children a woman would have in her life span
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Total marital fertility rate is?
Average no of children that would be born to a married woman in her reproductive age span
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Recommend dose of rabies immunoglobulin in 4 month old child is?
20 IU/kg
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What is measles vaccine dose?
0.5 cc
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JE vaccine and rabies vaccine storage temperature and duration?
2-8' for 3 years
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Varicella zoster vaccine is not given to?
Patients with varicella zoster infection, vaccine binds them
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First case seen by investigator is?
Index case
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First case seen in a community is?
Primary case
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Point source epidemic characteristic?
Sharp rise and sharp fall in number of cases
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Maternal mortality rate is expressed as?
Ratio per 100000 live births
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Cohort study is associated with which causation?
Antecedent causation
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Cross sectional study indicates?
Indicates prevalence
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Cohort study can determine?
Incidence Exposure RR
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Sensitivity of a test is used for?
Calculating true positive
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Great divide year for population growth was?
1921
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Vaccines contraindicated in pregnancy?
Measles Rubella BCG
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Vaccine not contraindicated in pregnancy?
Tetanus
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Newborn child with HIV+ and symptomatic, which vaccine is not given?
Live JE (all live vaccines)
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Yellow fever vaccine becomes effective after how many days post vaccination?
10 days
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Post exposure prophylaxis schedule of rabies vaccine in a previously immunized person?
Day 0, 3
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Pre exposure prophylaxis schedule of rabies vaccine in a previously immunized person?
Day 0, 7, 28
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Strain of varicella zoster vaccine is?
Oka
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Strain of BCG vaccine is?
DANISH 1331
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Strain of Anti-HIV
Ankara strar
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JE strain
Nakayama strain SA 14-14-2
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Killed H1N1 strain
California strain
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Strain of Measles
Edmonston strain
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Strain of Mumps
Jeryll Lynn strain
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Strain of rabies
Fixed viral strain
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Strain of rubella
RA 27/3 strain
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Strain of yellow fever
17 D strain
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Reverse cold chain is used for?
Carrying stool samples of polio patients from PHC to lab
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Which vaccine doesn't provide herd immunity?
Rabies
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Naranjo algorithm is used for?
Calculating drug adverse effect
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Specificity in Bradford hill criteria is?
Cause should be specific to the disease
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Consistency in Bradford hill criteria is?
Same results when repeated in different locations
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Temporal association in Bradford hill criteria is?
Cause present before outcome
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Strength of association in Bradford hill criteria is?
High strength of association means more causality
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Dose response relationship in Bradford hill criteria is?
Increased dose increased effect
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Reversibility in Bradford hill criteria is?
Reversing cause changes outcome
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Plausibility in Bradford hill criteria is?
Explaining the reason
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Coherence in Bradford hill criteria is?
Does it fit with existing knowledge
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Recall bias found in?
Case control study
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Interviewer bias in?
Case control study - most attention to cases
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Berkson's bias is?
when control are selected from hospital
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Neyman bias is?
Previous incidence bias
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Attrition bias is?
Loss of follow up
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Hawthorne bias is?
People change behavior under observation
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Lead time bias is?
Screening is confused with prolonged survival
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Publication bias is?
Negative study not published
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Selection bias is?
Controls are not representative of whole population
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BMI formula?
Wt in kg/Ht in m
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Skin fold thickness is measured by? and sites?
Herpendem caliper 4 sites: bicep, triceps - BEST, suprailiac and subscapular
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Rule of halves only applies to?
HTN
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MC cancer oral male?
Liporal
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MC cancer female and overall?
Breast
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90-70-90 rule applies to?
Cervical cancer 90% Vaccinate 70% Screening 90% Treatment
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Male protein requirement?
54 g
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Female protein requirement?
46 g Pregnant 2nd trimester +9.5 g Pregnant 3rd trimester +22 g Lactating 0-6 m +17 g Lactating 6+ m +13 g
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Female calories requirement?
S = 1600 M = 2100 H = 2700 Pregnant 2&3 Trimester = +350 Lactating 0-6 m = +600 Lactating 6+ m = +520
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Male calories requirement?
S = 2100 M = 2700 H = 3400
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Reference Indian man measurements?
age 19-39 weight 65 height 1.77 m BMI 20.75
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Reference Indian woman measurements?
age 19-39 weight 55 height 1.62 BMI 20.95
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Recommended dietary allowance RDA?
97.5% Mean +2SD Except energy
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Male and female fiber requirement?
25-32-41-52
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Estimated average requirement EAR?
which completes requirement of 50% of people
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Test of milk before pasteurization?
Methylene blue test
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Test of milk after pasteurization?
Phosphatase Std plate count Coliform count
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What is max in human milk?
Lactose
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Breast milk content in 100 ml?
Energy 65 kcal Protein 1.1 g
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Mineral requirement Male
Ca 1000 mg/d Zinc 17 mg/d Iodine 140 mcg/d Iron 19 mg/d Folate 300 mcg/d A 1000 mcg/d C 80 mg/d D 600 IU/d
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Mineral requirement Female
Ca 1000 mg/d Zinc 13 mg/d Iodine 140 mcg/d Iron 29 mg/d Folate 220 mcg/d A 840 mcg/d C 65 mg/d D 600 IU/d
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Mineral requirement pregnant Female
Ca 1000 mg/d Zinc 14.5 mg/d Iodine 220 mcg/d Iron 27 mg/d Folate 570 mcg/d A 900 mcg/d C 65+15 mg/d D 600 IU/d
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Mineral requirement lactating Female
Ca 1200 mg/d Zinc 14 mg/d Iodine 280 mcg/d Iron 23 mg/d Folate 330 mcg/d A 950 mcg/d C 65+50 mg/d D 600 IU/d
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Epidemic dropsy key word and toxin?
Mustard oil, limb swelling - sanguinarine
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Epidemic dropsy test?
Nitric acid test MC Paper chromatography Most specific
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Endemic ascites toxin?
Pyrrolizidine, Millets mixed with crotalaria sees (jhunjhunia) Tx deweeding
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Ergotism toxin and solution?
Ergot fungus, 20% saline water floating
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Toxin that causes liver cancer? and its prevention
Aflatoxin - groundnut/maize - store after drying only
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Vit A def signs?
Bitot spot Night blindness Corneal xerosion
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Vit B1 def signs, disease?
Beri Beri In alcoholics causes wernikes encephalopathy, confusion, ataxia, ophthalmoplegia Most in Gingelly seeds
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Vit B3 (niacin) def signs 4D, source and necklace?
Pellagra Diarrhea Dementia Dermatitis Death Casals necklace - bilaterally sun exposed
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Vit C deficiency causes? Was founded by?
Scurvy - bleeding gums Found mostly in Amla James Lind
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Most sensitive iron form?
Serum ferritin
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Most sensitive indicator of iodine def?
Neonatal hypothyroidism - surveillance used is urinary iodine excretion
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Iodine at production and consumer level?
30 PPM and 15 PPM
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Fluorine parameters
<0.5 ppm dental caries - best seen on incisors >1.5 ppm fluorosis 3-6 ppm skeletal fluorosis
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Technique used to remove Fluorine from water?
Nalgonda technique, add lime and alum developed by NERI
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Zinc def causes?
Dermatitis Alopecia Diarrhea Peri-orifical
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Growth rate parameters
CBR-CDR/10 0.5% means population double in 140 years 1% means population double in 70 years 2% means population double in 35 years
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First census held in India generally?
1881
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Chaya tablet contains?
Ormeloxifene 30 mg twice a week for 3 months then once a week
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OCP contains?
EE 0.03 mg LNG 0.15 mg 21 days
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Antara contraceptive how is it given?
IM 150 mg repeat after 3 months can take 15 days before and 30 days after
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Maternal mortality rate denominator?
Women of reproductive age
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Maternal mortality ratio denominator?
Live birth
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IFA tablet during pregnancy contains?
Iron = 600 mg FA = 500 mg given once daily for 6 m before and 6 m after delivery
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Td dose for pregnant woman?
2 doses 4 weeks apart or booster dose if pregnancy after 3 years
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Min pregnancy visits?
4 min GOI 8 min WHO (new) 4 min (old)
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Mid upper arm circumference is measured by? age group? and parameters?
Shakiro's tape, for 6-59 m 11.5 or lower SAM 11.5-12.5 MAM 12.5 and above normal
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Growth chart was made by?
David morley
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Type of growth chart?
By WHO - percentile By ICDS - z-score
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Horrocks apparatus used for?
Estimate chlorine demand has 6 white and 1 black cup uses starch iodide
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Kyoto protocol used for?
Green house protocol
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8 components of AQI
NO2, SO2, Co, Pb, O3, NH3, PM10 and PM2.5
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Kata thermometer is used for measuring?
Cooling power of air, low air velocity
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Sling psychrometer is used for measuring?
Relative humidity
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Globe thermometer is used for measuring?
Heat stress
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Anemometer is used for measuring?
Wind velocity
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Which is the most insanitary waste disposal?
Dumping
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Best waste disposal for small camping?
Burial
240
Controlled tipping or sanitary landfill types?
Ramp Area Trench - 1 acre for 10k people
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Type of composting?
Mechanical and Banglore
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Anopheles eggs description?
Lays single egg, boat shaped
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Aedes eggs description?
Cigar shaped single
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Culex eggs description?
Group Raft shaped
245
Mansonia eggs description?
Cluster eggs
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Siphon tube is absent in which mosquito?
Anopheles
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Siphon tube is present in which mosquito?
Aedes, Mansonia, Culex
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Disease, breeding environment, and appearance of Anopheles.
Malaria, Clean water, sits on an angle
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Disease, breeding environment, and appearance of Culex.
JE & Filaria, Dirty water, hunchback appearence
250
Disease, breeding environment, and appearance of Aedes.
Dengue, Chikengunya, Yellow fever, Zika Artificial water collection Tiger like spots
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Disease, breeding environment of Mansonia.
Filaria, Aquatic plants.
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Kala-azar caused by which organism, and its physical features?
Sandfly, Long legs, laneclot wings and hairy body Anil kapoor of insects
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Plague and endemic typhus are caused by which organism?
Rat flea -- long back legs for jumping, no neck and wings
254
Scrub typhus is caused by which organism?
Berry bug - teej/Trombiculid mite
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Scabies is caused by which organism?
Itch mite, tortoise shaped
256
Where is Residual spray for mosquitoes used?
Indoor
257
What is discarded in blue category container?
Broken glass, body implants, empty vials non-cytotoxic
258
Where is Space spray for mosquitoes used?
Fogging, outdoor
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What is Pneuconiosis?
Lung disease caused by dust
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Sugarcane dust causes?
Baggasosis Thermoactinomyces saccri
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Moldy hay causes?
Farmer's lung Microspolyspora faeni
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Compost causes?
Compost lung Aspergillosis
263
Factories act pneumonic?
1000-500-250-30
264
ESI act pneumonic?
70-80-90-100
265
Incubation period is?
Entry to first sign/symptom
266
Serial interval is?
Time between primary and secondary case
267
Generation time is?
Time between entry to max infectivity
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Communicable period is?
Time between which disease can be transferred
269
Window period is?
Entry of organism to lab detection
270
Live vaccine pneumonic?
ENJOY Big Meal Party Rest in Van Epidemic typhus Nasal influenza JE OPV Yellow fever BCG Measels, Mumps Plague Rota, Rubella Varicella
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Killed vaccine pneumonic?
A TRIP To Jaipur Hep A Tick borne typhus Rabies Influenza, IPU Pertussis Typhoid JE
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Toxoid vaccines are?
TT Diptheria
273
Polysaccharide vaccines are?
Meningo, pneumo, typhoid
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Recombinant vaccines are?
Hep-B HPV Cholera
275
Vaccines given at birth?
BOB BCG, OPV, Hep B
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Vaccines given at 6 weeks?
PORIP Penta, OPV, Rota, IPV, PCV
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Vaccines given at 10 weeks?
POR Penta, OPV, Rota
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Vaccines given at 14 weeks?
PORIP Penta, OPV, Rota, IPV, PCV
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Vaccines given at 9 months?
MJ-VIP MR, JE, Vit-A, IPV, PCV
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Vaccines given at 16-24 months?
MJ-DO MD, JE, DPT, OPV
281
Vaccines given at 5 years?
DPT, OPV
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Vaccines given at 10 & 15 years?
Td
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Vaccines given to pregnant female?
Td
284
Vaccines not reused?
BCG, measles and COVID
285
Shake test is used for?
Freeze damaged vaccine
286
Mono resistance is?
Resistance to any 1st line except Rifampicin
287
Poly drug resistance is?
Resistance to more than one 1st line except Rifampicin
288
Multi-drug resistance is?
Resistance to H&R
289
Pre-extensive drug resistance is?
Resistance to H&R + any 1 FQ
290
Extensive drug resistance is?
Resistance to H&R + any 1 FQ + any group A (bedaquiline and linezolid)
291
MDR TB treatment scheme?
BPaLM Bedauiline Protionamide Linezolid Moxifloxacin
292
Pre-XDA TB treatment scheme?
BPaL
293
Diseases under NVBDCP
Malaria Dengue Kala-azar - sand fly Chikungunaya JE Filariasis
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P. Vivax Tx
CQ 3 days + PQ 14 days daily 25 mg/kg -- 0.25 mg/kg
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P. falciparum Tx
Northeast: ACT-AL Other than northeast: ACT-SP
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