MCQ Bank
Plaque formation is a method of viral ___________
- A) Transmission
- B) Enumeration
- C) Infection
- D) Suppression
The deaths from a disease is called___.
- A) Mortality rate
- B) Morbidity
- C) Mortality
- D) Morbidity rate
Living of organisms together is called …………
- A) Mutualism
- B) Parasitism
- C) Commensalism
- D) Symbiosis
A ……………… is a pathogen infected individual who does not show any signs or symptoms of the disease.
- A) Source
- B) Carrier
- C) Reservoir
- D) Host
Which of the following is not true for flagellar staining?
- A) Air dry the smear
- B) Heat fix the smear
- C) Cover smear with tannic acid 10% in 5% NaCl
- D) Rinse smear with water
Virus consist of ____:
- A) Either DNA or RNA
- B) Only RNA
- C) Only DNA
- D) Both DNA or RNA
When environmental conditions become unfavorable for continuing vegetative cellular activities, the cells have the capacity to undergo sporogenesis and give rise to a new intracellular structure called the endospore.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
Deposition of immune complexes in the liver can be diagnosed by presence of IgG in kidney cells by using anti-IgG antibodies.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
The time at which disease is at peak is called___.
- A) Incubation period
- B) Acute period
- C) Decline period
- D) Convalescent period
The ___ enzyme dissolves connective tissues and help organism to spread through the tissues.
- A) IgA protease
- B) Collagenase
- C) Coagulase
- D) Hyaluronidase
Antibodies cannot agglutinate antigens which are then cleared as a group by macrophages?
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
The study of the occurrence of diseases and how they are transmitted is called ____.
- A) Bacteriology
- B) Epidemiology
- C) Immunology
- D) Virology
…….. are antiviral proteins produced by macrophages and lymphocytes in response to viral infections?
- A) Interferon
- B) Antigens
- C) Antibodies
- D) Prion
Lymph nodes contain aggregations of B and T cells along with macrophages and dendritic cells which interact with each other inducing adaptive immune responses.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
The sites where organisms of infections remain viable and act as source of infection is termed as ………
- A) Reservoir
- B) Carrier
- C) Host
- D) Source
The infections which are acquired by hospitals is called ____.
- A) Vector borne infection
- B) Zoonotic infection
- C) Nosocomial infection
- D) Latent infection
Whenever IgM or IgG antibodies bind to their antigens, they always activate complement which then can punch holes in the cells lysing them altogether.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
The ___ enzyme breaks down collagen which also helps the organisms spread through the tissues.
- A) Coagulase
- B) Collagenase
- C) IgA protease
- D) Hyaluronidase
IgG starts producing after___ days of infection.
- A) 3-5
- B) 7-10
- C) 6-7
- D) 4-5
The ___ digests IgA antibodies making them dysfunctional and destroyed antibodies are of no use then against the organisms.
- A) Coagulase
- B) Hyaluronidase
- C) Collagenase
- D) IgA protease