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Communicable Diseases questions for NEET PG
205 Communicable Diseases questions from the Social & Preventive Medicine section of the Recallab bank, each with a verified answer, every option explained and a reference to a current edition. 2 are published in full below.
- The transmission cycle shown below is that of:
- The duration for which contacts of a case are placed under quarantine is determined by which of the following?
- Under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is defined as resistance to which drugs?
- In the Indian epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar), what is the reservoir of infection?
- A larval survey finds mosquito larvae lying horizontally, flush against the water surface, with no siphon tube. Which genus is this, and which disease does it transmit?
- Why can influenza A cause pandemics while influenza B does not?
- In a boys' hostel, several students develop fever followed by an itchy rash in which macules, papules, vesicles and crusts are all present together, sparing the palms and soles. For how long must a…
- A date-palm sap collector in Kerala develops fever, breathlessness and encephalitis, and two nurses who cared for him fall ill a week later. What is the reservoir, and what is the single most…
- A child on the paediatric oncology ward develops chickenpox. Among the contacts are a seronegative pregnant nurse, a seronegative healthy adult and a child on chemotherapy. Which contacts should…