Dengue fever - most sensitive test?

  1. Dengue fever - most sensitive test?
    a. tissue culture
    b. Ig M
    c. elisa
    d. microscopy
    Answer: N/A

  2. What is the vitamin required for carboxylation reactions ?
    a. biotin
    b. TPP
    c. FAD
    d. NADH
    Answer: a

  3. Which of the following is the most potent stimulator of naïve T cells ?
    a. B cells
    b. Mature dendritic cells
    c. Epithelial cells
    d. Macrophages
    Answer: b

  4. The study of death in all its aspects is called ?
    a. thanatology
    b. ornithology
    c. odontology
    d. none
    Answer: a

  5. All of the following are good prognostic factors of ALL except ?
    a. age 2-8 years
    b. WBC count less than 50000 / mm3
    c. Hyperdiploidy
    d. T(9:22) t(8:14) t(4:11)
    Answer: d

  6. Which of the following studies is besf for calculating the incidence of a disease ?
    a. case control study
    b. cross sectional study
    c. prospective study
    d. retrospective study
    Answer: d

  7. Too many false positives in a screening test is due to which of the following ?
    a. high prevalence
    b. high incidence
    c. tests with high specificity
    d. tests with high sensitivity
    Answer: d

  8. Cyclodevelopmental stage is seen in ?
    a. malaria
    b. filariasis
    c. plague
    d. cholera
    Answer: b

  9. Gene for major histocompatibility complex is located on which chromosome ?
    a. 6
    b. 9
    c. 10
    d. 12
    Answer: a

  10. Central dot sign on CT is seen in which of the following conditions ?
    a. caroli’s disease
    answer: a

  11. What is hydrocution ?
    a. drowning a person in boiling water
    b. drowning a person in cold water
    c. both
    d. none
    Answer: b

  12. What is FALANGA ?
    a. beating on the soles of the foot of person
    b. beating on the ears of a person
    c. beating on the testicles of a person
    d. beating on the chest of a person

  13. Fish is not rich in ?
    a. iron
    b. iodine
    c. vitamin A
    d. phosphorous
    Answer: N/A

  14. Which of the following is not included in the SAFE strategy ?
    a. surgery
    b. vitamin A supplementation
    c. facial cleaning
    d. environmental hygiene
    Answer: b

  15. Which of the following is not a feature of horner’s syndrome ?
    a. miosis
    b. exopthalmos
    c. anhydrosis
    d. all the above
    Answer: b

  16. All of the following are immunity suppressors except ?
    a. cyclosporine
    b. azathioprine
    c. steroids
    d. cephalosporins
    Answer: d

  17. All are true about wiskott Aldrich syndrome except ?
    a. it is autosomal recessive
    answer: a

  18. In an uremic patient dialysis reverses all of the following except ?
    a. neuropathy
    b. seizures
    c. pericarditis
    d. all of the above
    Answer: a

  19. Misfolding of the proteins is characterisitic of all of the following except ?
    a. amyloidosis
    b. multiple sclerosis
    c. prion disease
    d. cruetz feldt Jacobs disease
    Answer: b

  20. Virchow’s triad includes all of the following except ?
    a. venous stasis
    b. injury to veins
    c. blood hypercoagulability
    d. venous thrombosis
    Answer: d

  21. Which one of the following drugs is removed by lungs
    a. cyclophosphamide
    b. 5 – FU
    c. Cisplatin
    d. doxorubicin
    Answer: a

  22. The CSF pressure is mainly maintained by ?
    a. rate of synthesis
    b. rate of absorption
    c. flow in the ventricles
    d. None
    Answer: b

  23. Which of the following is the best treatment of medullary carcinoma of thyroid ?
    a. surgery only
    b. surgery with radiotherapy
    c. chemotherapy
    d. radiotherapy only
    Answer: a

  24. All of the following are included in the phase 1 of detoxification reactions except?
    a. oxidation
    b. reduction
    c. hydrolysis
    d. conjugation
    Answer: d

  25. Most important substance responsible for the bioluminescence of fire flies ?
    a. phospho creatine
    b. ATP
    c. ADP
    d. GTP