Download DNB 2015 Dec MICROBIOLOGY III Question Paper

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NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS

MICRO/D/15/18/1l1

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FINAL EXAM

DECEMBER 2015

MICROBIOLOGY

PAPER - lll

Time : 3 hours

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Max. Marks : 100

Important instructions:

• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.

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• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.

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Write short notes on:

1. a) Enumerate arbovirus infections reported from India. 2+4+4
   b) Pathogenesis of Dengue Haemorrhagic fever (DHF).
   c) Status of Dengue Vaccine.
2. a) Morphology of influenza virus and epidemiology of influenza. (4+4)+2
   

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   b) List currently available vaccines.
3. List the viruses that cause opportunistic infections in AIDS. Describe 2+8 the characteristics of any one of them.
4. Enumerate 6 parasitic zoonotic diseases. Write about the mode of 3+7 transmission and pathogenesis of any one of them.
5. Prevention of Hepatitis A infection. 10
6. a) Enumerate coccidian parasites of humans. 3+(2+5)
   

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   b) Transmission and laboratory diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection.
7. List the various methods of detection of viruses in clinical 2+(4+4) specimens. Describe their principles and the clinical specimen where these can be used.
8. a) List various schistosomes, their mode of infection and disease {(2+2+3)+3 caused by them.
   b) What is the status of these disease in India?
9. a) Ante-mortem diagnosis of rabies in humans. 4+6
   

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   b) Immunoprophylaxis of rabies.
10. Aetiopathogenesis, epidemiology and diagnosis of Chikungunya. 3+3+4

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