Micro 2013

Young man with white mucosal lesions in the mouth , diagnosed with AIDS. What is it?

Which of the following organisms causes a granulomatous, tuberculosis-like infection?

Finding of yeast, chlamydospores, pseudohyphae

Selective lab media to cultivate and diagnose enterobacteria:

Viruses that multiply in the gut are transmitted by oral fecal route. These viruses multiply in the gut and transported to bloodstream. Large amount of infectious virus can also be recovered from feces. Which of the following is an example of an enterovirus that carries multiple RNA segments that are double-stranded?

Trachoma, inclusion conjunctivitis, and lyphogranuloma venerum are caused by

What is true statement concerning anaerobic infections?

Which is true of fungi?

In which of the following diseases is virus secreted in saliva, but no virus is found in blood?

True statement regarding Cholera Enterotoxin?

Which of the following best describes Crytoptoccus Neoformans?

The most important cause of non A, non B transfusion associated viral hepatitis is caused by an agent that?

Azidothymidine (AZT) and acyclovir are nucleoside analogs that block:

Which of the best statements BEST describes Blastomyces dermatitis?

Borrelia Recurrentis is:

Pleurodynin and myocarditis can be caused by

Which of the following best describes the live attenuates oral polio vaccine given to infants and children?

Which of these organisms is often associated with gonorrhea?

In which of the following mycotic infections are the organisms characteristically found within reticuloendothelial cells?

What genus cases bacillary dysentery?

Rhinovirus is a picornovirus and mulitples exclusively in the cytoplasm of the infected cell

Coxsackie A virus causes

The treatment of patients with broad spectrum antibiotics is often associated with which of the following?

A 43-Year old male reports to the ER. He has watery diarrhea and the organism isolated is gram negative curved rod that grows best at 43 degrees celsius. The organism most likely is?

A 6 year old boy he went in the woods and he has a bulls eye rash. What caused this?

An enteric virus was treated with ether, and experimental animals are infected with this ether treated virus. Seven days after infection, all the animals were found to be dead. Which of the following best explains this observation?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of basillus anthracis?

Which of the following is an endogenous fungus that is capable of producing an opportunistic infection?

What is the target of antifungals?

RNA dependent RNA catalyzes the synthesis of RNA using RNA template which enzyme copies an RNA template to DNA?

Mumps, measles, rubella (MMR) vaccine is made up of?

An important paramyxovirus causes infection of the salivary gland and other organs such as testicles and ovaries. This agent is an import an cause of male sterility in humans. Which of the following vaccines is currently licensed for this infection?

Which antibiotic is effective in treating oral Candidia?

All DNA viruses and retroviruses have to make mRNA from DNA templates in the nucleus. Which o the following enzymes makes mRNA from DNA templates?

Rhinovirus is a picornavirus and multiplies exclusively in the cytoplasm of the infected cell. Which of the following is true for this virus?

A small tick of genes ixodes, transmits Borrelia burgodoferi which following diseases also transmitted by tick?

Human infection with Histoplasma capsulatum is usually a result of

Which of the following is transmitted through inhalation?

Peplomers found on the surface of enveloped viruses bind to host cell molecules and mediate virus entry. Which of the following best describes this phenomenon?

A pet parakeet may represent a means of transmitting

The virulence factor that accounts for episodic nature of relapsing fever caused by?

A 9-Year old boy has tine capitis. If he is receiving appropriate therapy then he is MOST likely being treated with an:

48 Year old man complains of upper abdominal pain associated with nausea. His condition gets worse when he drinks coffee, soda, alcohol, and spicy foods. He has a 20 year old history of smoking and he drinks a lot. He denies using some type of drug. The organism mostly causing this is?

Which 2 organisms below colonize the GI tract and cause inflammatory diarrhea due to the activity of toxins that are termed cytotoxic?

Most RNA viruses stay in the cytoplasm of the infected cell, make RNA and proteins assemble nucleocapsids and come out of the cell. All viruses make use of cytoplasmic ribosomes for translating their proteins. Which of the following viruses make use of cytoplasm and nucleus for its life cycle?

Arboviruses are transmitted by mosquitoes and other insects. Which of the following diseases is an arboviral disease?

Inteferons are proteins made by host cell to fight viral infection. Which of the following mechanisms account for interferon action?

Important distiguishing characteristic of Helicobacter pylori as compared to Campylobacter species?

Some bacteria rely on different virulence factors depending upon which tissue they infect. The major virulence factor of strains of E Coli which infects urinary tract:

Primary Infection with Coccidiodes usually affects the