Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
A 30 year old woman has bleedy diarrhoea for the past 14 hours, which one of the following organisms is likely to cause this illness?
Options
Streptococcus pyogens
Clostridium difficile
Shigella dysenteriae
Salmonella enteritidis
Advertisements
Solution
Shigella dysenteriae
RELATED QUESTIONS
What are the various public health measures, which you would suggest as safeguard against infectious diseases?
How does the transmission of the following disease take place?
Amoebiasis
An EEG represents spontaneous electrical activity of the:
(i) Kidney
(ii) Spinal cord
(iii) Heart
(iv) Brain
Expand MRI
In the following questions/statements has four suggested answers. Rewrite the correct answer
Typhoid is classified as a:
(A) Viral disease
(B) Genetic disorder
(C) Bacterial disease
(D) Protozoan disease
Name two diseases whose spread can be controlled by the eradication of Aedes mosquitoes.
Explain what happens in the RBCs of the humans when Plasmodium gains entry into them. How does the human body gets affected?
Compare and contrast bacillary dysentery and amoebic dysentery.
| Diseases | Causative agent | Symptoms |
| Ascariasis | Ascaris | |
| Trichophyton | Appearance of dry, scaly lesions on various parts of the body | |
| Typhoid | High fever, weakness, headache, stomach pain and constipation. | |
| Pneumonia |
Why do you think it is not possible to produce vaccine against 'common cold'?
Which of the following disease is caused by a protozoan?
The sporozoites that cause infection when a female Anopheles mosquito bites a person, are formed in ______.
The disease chikungunya is transmitted by ______.
Which of the following is not the causal organism for ringworm?
If there are two pathogenic viruses, one with DNA and other with RNA, which would mutate faster? And Why?
“Plasmodium protozoan needs both a mosquito and a human host for its continuity.” Explain.
Write the mode of transmission for the following diseases:
Filariasis
How does the transmission of the following disease take place?
Ascariasis
What measure would you take to prevent water-borne diseases?
