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QuesID: -1

Nocardia shows all the features except:

1. It is an anaerobe
2. It is an acid fast organism
3. Cultured by Paraffin bait technique
4. Causative agent of Actinomycetoma

QuesID: -2

A 70 year old male presented with fever, vomiting and neck rigidity.
Patient’s blood picture shows monocytosis. Organism cultivated from
CSF gives positive Anton test, which one statement is incorrect?

1. It is coccoid, Gram negative bacillus

2. Most human infections are caused by serovar 2a or 2b
3. It shows slow tumbling motility
4. It is catalase positive

QuesID: -3

All of the following are true about bacillus anthrax except:

1. Plasmid is responsible for toxin production

2. Cutaneous anthrax generally resolves spontaneously
3. Capsular polypeptide aids in virulence by inhibiting phagocytosis
4. Toxin is a complex of two fraction
QuesID: -4

A 3 yr. old child develops bloody diarrhea hemorrhagic colitis due to E.

coli 0157:H7 is suspected. What medium should be inoculated to help
the lab staff make the diagnosis of this infection

1. TCBS
2. Sorbitol Mac Conkey Agar
3. Modified Thayer Martin medium
4. Chocolate agar

QuesID: -5

3-year-old girl with a history of hydrocephalus c/o severe headache and

fever. The girl underwent a revision of a ventricular-peritoneal shunt 1
month ago, and the neurologist suspects that an infection has occurred.
Which of the following organisms would most likely be isolated from the
shunt tubing?

1. Bacteroides fragilis
2. Corynebacterium diphtheriae
3. Escherichia coli
4. Staphylococcus epidermidis

QuesID: -6

San Joakin valley fever is caused by

1. B. dermatitidis
2. C. neoformans
3. C. immitis
4. H. capsulatum
QuesID: -7

Which of the following species of candida produces the characteristic

thick walled terminal chlamydospores on corn meal agar?

1. C. albicans
2. C. tropicalis
3. C. krusei
4. C. pseudotropicalis

QuesID: -8

Cigar shaped yeast cells are seen with

1. C. albicans
2. S. schenkii
3. H. capsulatum
4. C. neoformans

QuesID: -9

The major cause of favus is

1. M. canis
2. E. floccosum
3. T. rubrum
4. T. schoenlenii

QuesID: -10

Mucormycosis is caused by

1. Rhizopus arrhizus
2. Rhizopus oryzae
3. Absidia corymbifera
4. All of the above
QuesID: -11

Which of the following enzymes are used for liquefaction of thick

exudates as in empyema?

1. Streptokinase & NADase

2. Streptokinase & Streptodornase
3. NADase & Hyaluronidase
4. AStreptokinase and N acetyl glucosaminidase

QuesID: -12

Match the following diseases with the causative agents:

1)Q fever a)Coxiella burnetii

2)Cat scratch disease b).Bartonella henselae
3) Rat bite fever c). Spirillum minus
4)Brill Zinsser disease d). Rickettsiae prowazekii

1. 1-a,2-b, 3-c, 4-d

2. 1-b, 2-c, 3- d, 4-a
3. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b
4. 1-d, 2-A 3- b, 4-a
QuesID: -13

Match the following bacteria with their appropriate culture medium

1)Salmonella typhi enrichment medium A.Selenite F broth

2)Bordetella pertusis B.Bordet gengou media
3)Chlamydia C.Hela cells
4)Mycobacterium tuberculosis D.LJ medium

1. 1-a,2-b, 3-c, 4-d

2. 1-b, 2-c, 3- d, 4-a
3. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b
4. 1-d, 2-A 3- b, 4-a

QuesID: -14

Match the following tests

1 SAT A Brucellosis
2) Weil felix
B Rickettsial Diseases
reaction
3 MAT C Leptospirosis
D Mycoplasma
4) CAT
pneumoniae

1. 1-a,2-b, 3-c, 4-d

2. 1-b, 2-c, 3- d, 4-a
3. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b
4. 1-d, 2-A 3- b, 4-a
QuesID: -15

Match the following E.coli types

1)EPEC A Dysentery resembling shigellosis

2)EIEC B Traveller’s diarrhea
3)EHEC C Infantile diarrhoea
4)ETEC D Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

1. 1-a,2-b, 3-c, 4-d

2. 1-b, 2-c, 3- d, 4-a
3. 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b
4. 1-d, 2-A 3- b, 4-a

QuesID: -16

Six days after receiving several fleabites in a rat-infested shed, a

homeless 24-year-old-man develops fever, chills, and a rash that
spreads from his abdomen to cover his extremities. He is seen at the
hospital emergency department, where blood is drawn for analysis. Eight
days later, the public health department reports the presence of antibody
to one of the rickettsial group antigens. Which of the following is the
most likely diagnosis?

1. Endemic typhus
2. Epidemic typhus
3. Q fever
4. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
QuesID: -17

All of the following are true about bacillus anthrax except:

1. Plasmid is responsible for toxin production

2. Cutaneous anthrax generally resolves spontaneously
3. Capsular polypeptide aids in virulence by inhibiting phagocytosis
4. Culture media is MYPA

QuesID: -18

Stalactite growth in ghee broth is due to

1. H.influenzae
2. C.diphtheriae
3. Y.pestis
4. T.pallidium

QuesID: -19

Buruli ulcer is caused by

1. Mycobacterium ulcerans
2. Mycobacterium marinum
3. Aycobacterium kansasi
4. Mycobacterium fortuitum

QuesID: -20

Phage typing can be done for- (NBE based AI 13 Pattern)

1. Salmonella
2. Streptococcus
3. Shigella
4. Pseudomonas
QuesID: -21

In blood culture the ratio of blood to reagent is- (NBE based AI 13

Pattern)

1. 1:5
2. 1:20
3. 1:10
4. 1:100

QuesID: -22

Orientia Tsutsugamushi causes:

1. Epidemic typhus
2. Endemic typhus
3. Scrub typhus
4. Q fever

QuesID: -23

Mycoplasma is resistant to:

1. Ceftazidime
2. Aminoglycosides
3. Doxycycline
4. Macrolides
QuesID: -24

Identify the organism on Bacitracin sensitivity disk test given below?

1. Streptococcus pyogenes
2. Staph aureus
3. Clostridium
4. Corynebacterium

QuesID: -25

Which is not a dimorphic fungi?

1. P. marneffi
2. Histoplasma capsulatum
3. Blastomyces dermatidis
4. Pneumocystis jirovecii
QuesID: -26

Following figure is showing the slide of organism stained with Gomori

methanamine silver. What features and which organism is it?

1. Fungi is showing acute angle branching with septate filament and

is aspergillus
2. Fungi is showing non septate acute angle branching and is
candida
3. Fungi showing right angle branching with septa and is mucor
4. Fungi is showing non septate acute angle branching and is
aspergillus
QuesID: -27

A patient was suffering from hepatorenal syndrome. A urine sample was

obtained from the patient and was examined under the microscopy.
Which of the following technique is being used to make the organism
visible?

1. Dark field microscopy

2. Routine microscopy with negatively stained background
3. Phase contrast microscopy
4. Compound light microscopy

QuesID: -28

Selective culture medium to grow leptospira:

1. Thayer Martin medium

2. Mac Conkey agar
3. Butzler medium
4. EMJH
QuesID: -29

True about Campylobacter jejuni:

1. 37 degree C microaerophilic
2. 42 degree C microaerophilic
3. 5-10 degree CO2
4. 37 degree C and 10% capnophilic

QuesID: -30

Pyoverdin is produced by :

1. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2. Clostridium perfringenes
3. Bacillus stearothermophilus
4. Salmonella typhi

QuesID: -31

Which of the following is an enrichment media:

1. Alkaline peptone water

2. Monsour’s taurocholate Tellurite peptone water
3. Selenite F broth
4. All of the above
QuesID: -32

The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans in a CSF sample is best seen

by:

1. Gram stain
2. Indian ink preparation
3. Giemsa stain
4. Methanamine-silver stain

QuesID: -33

Reynolds braude phenomenon seen in

1. Chlamydia
2. Candida albicans
3. Bacterial vaginosis
4. Neisseria gonorrhoeae

QuesID: -34

Microsporum involves:

1. Skin, hair and nails

2. Skin and hair
3. Skin and nails
4. Hair and nails

QuesID: -35

White piedra is caused by

1. Piedra hortae
2. Pityrosporum orbiculare
3. Hortae wernickii
4. Trichosporum beigelli
QuesID: -36

Aseptate hyphae are seen in

1. Phycomycetes
2. Ascomycetes
3. Basidiomycetes
4. Deutromycetes

QuesID: -37

Correctly matched stain

1. Mucicarmine – Cryptococcus
2. Giemsa – Candida
3. Methanamine silver – Trichophyton
4. Gram’s – Pneumocystis carinii

QuesID: -38

Tinea pedis is caused by which of the following – (Recent MCQ)

1. E. floccosum
2. M. furfur
3. M. canis
4. E. werneckii
QuesID: -39

Cigar body is seen in – (Recent MCQ)

1. Cryptococcus
2. Histoplasmosis
3. Sporotrichosis
4. Aspergillosis

QuesID: -40

Microorganism motile at 25 degree but not motile at 37 degree

1. Listeria monocytogenes
2. Campylobacter
3. Streptococcus agalactiae
4. E coli

QuesID: -41

Color of granules of actinomycetes

1. Black
2. Yellow
3. Red
4. Brown

QuesID: -42

TB bacilli culture can also be done by

1. Tinsdale medium
2. MGIT medium
3. MYPA
4. BCYE
QuesID: -43

Acid fastness of tubercle bacilli is

1. Presence of mycolic acid

2. Integrity of cell wall
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above

QuesID: -44

Main cytokine involved in erythema nodosum leprosum reaction is

1. IL 2
2. Interferon gamma
3. Tumour necrosis factor alpha
4. Macrophage colony stimulating factor

QuesID: -45

True about Mycobacterium leprae

1. Transmitted by droplet infection

2. Phenolic glycolipid (PGL1) is a virulence factor
3. Both is correct
4. None of the above

QuesID: -46

Culture media used of diagnosis of EHEC O157:H7 is

1. O7 culture
2. Sorbitol Macconkey media
3. XLD agar
4. Deoxycholate agar
QuesID: -47

Non-toxigenic C. diphtheriae changes to toxigenic C. diphtheriae by the

help of bacteriophage by which method this conversion occur?

1. Transformation
2. Transduction
3. Conjugation
4. Recombinant technology

QuesID: -48

Daisy head appearance of colonies of Corynebacterium diphtheria on

blood tellurite agar is shown by

1. Gravis biotype
2. Intermedius biotype
3. Mitis biotype
4. None of the above

QuesID: -49

Which of the following is a tripartite toxin?

1. Diphtheria toxin
2. Anthrax toxin
3. Botulinum toxin
4. Cholera toxin
QuesID: -50

Which of the following bacteria is known as Ebert Gaffky bacillus

1. Klebsiella
2. H. Aegypticus
3. Salmonella typhi
4. Corynebacterium

QuesID: -51

Agglutination with O antigen of S typhi is inhibited by

1. Vi antigen
2. Pili antigen
3. Flagellar antigen
4. All of the above

QuesID: -52

Travellers diarrhoea is caused by

1. EPEC
2. EHEC
3. ETEC
4. EIEC

QuesID: -53

Atypical pneumonia can be caused by the following microbial agents

except?

1. Mycoplasma pneumoniae
2. Legionella pneumophila
3. Human Corona virus
4. Klebsiella pneumoniae
QuesID: -54

Classification of shigella is on the basis of fermentation of

1. Lactose
2. Sucrose
3. Mannitol
4. Glucose

QuesID: -55

String test is used for

1. B. Anthracis
2. Vibrio cholerae
3. Brucella abortus
4. Pseudomonas mallei

QuesID: -56

Verocytotoxin has been in individual suffering from hemolytic uraemic

syndrome in their

1. Blood
2. Tissues
3. Faeces
4. Saliva

QuesID: -57

Stalactite growth in ghee broth is due to

1. H influenzae
2. C. Diphtheria
3. Y. Pestis
4. T. pallidum
QuesID: -58

A young boy had a flea bite while working in a wheat grain godown. After
5 days he developed fever and had axillary lymphadenopathy. A smear
was sent to the laboratory to perform a specific staining. Which one of
the following staining method would help in the identification of the
suspected pathogen:

1. Albert staining
2. Zeihl Neelson staining
3. Mc Fadyean staining
4. Wayson staining

QuesID: -59

Culture media for pertussis is

1. L J media
2. Chocolate agar
3. Wilson & Blair medium
4. Bordet Gengou medium

QuesID: -60

Dorset egg medium is used for cultivation of

1. Staphylococcus
2. Streptococcus
3. Gonococcus
4. M TB
QuesID: -61

The factor which promotes virulence of M.tuberculosis -

1. Wax D
2. Cord factor
3. Muramyl dipeptide
4. Mycolic acid

QuesID: -62

Which of the following is not a pathogenic mycobacteria -

1. M.Kansasii
2. M.scrofulaceum
3. M.cheolonei
4. M.smegmatis

QuesID: -63

The following are true regarding Lyme's Disease, except:

1. It is transmitted by Ixodes tick.

2. Erythema chronicum migrans may be a clinical feature
3. Borrelia recurrentis is the aetiological agent.
4. Rodents act as natural hosts.

QuesID: -64

Fried egg colony is seen in culture of

1. Mycoplasma
2. Legionella
3. Trachoma
4. Haemophilus
QuesID: -65

All are true about Bacterial vaginosis except

1. Vaginal pH >4.5
2. Nugent scoring is used for diagnosis
3. Fishy smelling discharge after addition of KOH
4. Presence of clue cells is pathognomic

QuesID: -66

An ill patient presented with interstitial pneumonia,denied being bitten by

insects.Of the following rickettsial diseases, which one has he most
likely contracted?

1. Scrub typhus
2. Rickettsial pox
3. Brill-Zinsser disease
4. Q fever

QuesID: -67

Streptococcus is classified on the basis of

1. M protein
2. Polysaccharide C antigen
3. Culture Characteristic
4. Bile solubility
QuesID: -68

Identify non motile salmonella

1. Salm typhi
2. Salm gallinarum
3. Salm pullorum
4. Both b&c

QuesID: -69

Which of the following statements about diphtheria are untrue

1. Immunity to diphtheria depends circulating antitoxin

2. Humans are the only hosts for the organisms
3. Toxin is produced by only strains lysogenic for bacteriophages
carrying the tox gene
4. Fragment A of the toxin is responsible for attachment to host cells

QuesID: -70

Mitsuda reaction is read after

1. 3 days
2. 3 hours
3. 3 weeks
4. 3 months

QuesID: -71

Most common fungal infection in febrile neutropenia

1. Aspergillus Niger
2. Candida albicans
3. Aspergillus fumigatus
4. Mucormycosis
QuesID: -72

Which of the following is the most common etiologic agent in paranasal

sinus mycoses

1. Aspergillus species
2. Histoplasma
3. Coccidioides species
4. Candida albicans

QuesID: -73

Not true about Rhinosporidiosis is

1. Can be cultured on Sabouraud’s dextrose Agar

2. Fungal Spherules in biopsy
3. Bleeds to touch
4. Most common site is Nose

QuesID: -74

Fungi which grow by budding-

1. Cryptococci & Candida

2. Pityriasis versicolor and Sporothrix
3. Rhinosporidium & Cryptococcus
4. Tinea & Candida

QuesID: -75

Hair perforation test is positive in

1. Trichophyton
2. Microsporum
3. Epidermophyton
4. Trichosporon
QuesID: -76

Identify the test?

1. CAMP test
2. CAT
3. SAT
4. MAT
QuesID: -77

A 60-year-old man was brought in with a history of high grade fever with
chills and rigors for the previous two days. He also had a mild chest pain
and productive cough. The sputum was submitted for investigation. X-
ray chest showed consolidation in the right lower lobe. The direct smear
from sputum showing this picture, On the basis of gram staining what is
the probable cause of infection?

1. Streptococcus pyogenes
2. Streptococcus pneumoniae
3. N. Meningitidis
4. Klebsiella pneumoniae
QuesID: -78

Identify the type hemolysis and the bacteria producing it?

1. Double zone hemolysis by Cl. tetani

2. Target hemolysis Cl. Perfringens
3. Beta hemolysis by Cl. Botulinum
4. Incomplete hemolysis by Cl. difficile

QuesID: -79

Identify the test?

1. Target hemolysis
2. Example of agar diffusion in 2 dimensions
3. Nagler reaction
4. Demonstration of Swarming of C. perfringens
QuesID: -80

Identify the medium?

1. Loeffler serum slope medium

2. Lowenstein-Jensen medium
3. Dorset egg slope medium
4. Petragnani slope medium
QuesID: -81

Identify the animal?

1. Albino mice
2. Guinea pig
3. Hamster
4. Nine banded armadillo

QuesID: -82

Pathogenesis of which E coli is shown below

1. ETEC
2. EPEC
3. EHEC
4. All the above
QuesID: -83

Choose the right statement on the basis of given media and colony
characteristics?

1. Jet black colored colonies of S. typhi on Wilson Blair’s agar.

2. Jet black colored colonies of S. typhi on Deoxycholate citrate agar
(DCA).
3. Brown black colored colonies of S. typhi on Wilson Blair’s agar.
4. Brown black colored colonies of S. paratyphi A on Wilson Blair’s
agar

QuesID: -84

Identify the phenomenon?

1. Antibiotic susceptibility testing

2. Swarming
3. Nagler reaction
4. Dienes phenomenon
QuesID: -85

Oxidase test helps in identification of each bacterium except one?

1. Brucella
2. Vibrio
3. Neisseria
4. E. coli

QuesID: -86

Identify the bacteria and staining method?

1. Gram staining of blood showing gram positive bacilli

2. Gram staining of blood showing gram negative bacilli
3. Wright-Giemsa staining of blood showing blue colored bacilli
stained like bipolar
4. Gram staining of blood showing gram positive spore bearing bacilli
QuesID: -87

Identify the test?

1. CAMP test
2. Satellitism test
3. Reverse CAMP test
4. Demonstration of beta hemolysis on Blood agar by Staph aureus

QuesID: -88

Identify the media and growth on it?

1. XLD showing growth of Salmonella

2. TCBS showing growth of Vibrio
3. DCA showing growth of Shigella
4. CLED showing growth of proteus
QuesID: -89

Identify the identification test?

1. String test
2. Slide coagulase test
3. Slide Catalase test
4. Slide Oxidase test

QuesID: -90

Which bacteria show this kind of growth pattern in Ghee broth

1. Yersinia Pestis
2. Acinetobacter
3. Aeromonas
4. Nocardia
QuesID: -91

Identity the bacteria with its microscopy?

1. Dark field Microscopy for T. pallidum

2. Negative staining for Borrelia
3. Fluorescent Ab staining for T. pallidum
4. Negative staining for T. pallidum

QuesID: -92

Which bacterial colonies appear like this on solid media?

1. Coxiella
2. Bordetella
3. Mycoplasma pneumoniae
4. Legionellae
QuesID: -93

Bacteria associated with it picture?

1. Diffusely adherent E. coli

2. G. Vaginalis
3. H. ducreyi
4. Biofilm producing Klebsiella

QuesID: -94

Identify image:

1. Aspergillus
2. Candida
3. Cryptococcus
4. Dermatophyte
QuesID: -95

Melanized sclerotic cells / Medlar bodies (4–12 μm diameter) are evident

in this H & E stained cutaneous biopsy of which disease

1. Rhinosporidiosis
2. Coccididomycosis
3. Chromoblastomycosis
4. Sporotrichosis

QuesID: -96

Identify image

1. Rhinosporidiosis
2. Rhinocerebral zygomycosis
3. Mucormycosis
4. Absidia
QuesID: -97

Germ tube test is done for

1. Candida albicans
2. Candida tropicalis
3. Candida glabrata
4. Candida kefyr

QuesID: -98

Image below show chlamydospore formation in:

1. Candida albicans
2. Candida tropicalis
3. Candida glabrata
4. Candida kefyr
QuesID: -99

Identify the staining preparation?

1. Gram staining
2. Negative staining
3. Z. N. staining
4. Wayson staining
QuesID: -100

Image shows staining of:

1. Pneumocystis carnii
2. Coccidiodes imitis
3. Paracoccidiodes brasilensis
4. Blastomycosis