In a patient with acute myocardial infarction, which one of the following drugs should be avoided during the first 24 hours?
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Streptokinase
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Aspirin
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Metoprolol
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Digoxin
Poor prognostic indicator in acute severe asthma include all the following except
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Pulsus paradoxus
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Hypocarbia
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Use of accessory muscles of respiration
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PEFR less than 20% of previous value
Hepatorenal syndrome is characterized by all of the following except
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Serum creatinine more than 1.5 gm/dl
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An intrinsically normal kidney
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Low or absent proteinuria
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Presence of a precipitating cause
Which one of the following abnormalities is associated with central Pontine myelinosis?
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Hypernatraemia
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Hyponatraemia
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Hypercalcaemia
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Hypocalcaemia
Significant bacteriuria is when the number of organisms per milliliter of urine are
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1, 00, 000 or more
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50, 000 to 60, 000
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20, 000 to 30, 000
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1, 000 to 10, 000
Which one of the following is the most common opportunistic infection in patients with AIDS?
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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Pneumocystis carinii
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Rickettsiae
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Gram negative bacteria
With reference to Tuberculoid Leprosy, which one of the following is not correct?
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Thickening of the peripheral nerves
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Skin lesions contain very few leprosy bacilli
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Cell mediated immunity is profoundly depressed
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Erythema nodosum leprosum is very uncommon
Which one of the following features is not correct about schizophrenia?
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Peak incidence is in 15 to 30 years age group
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People with low intelligence are more predisposed
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Insight into the illness is lost
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Behaviour therapy is very helpful
Which one of the following feature is not correct about Felty's syndrome?
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Splenomegaly
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Rheumatoid arthritis
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Lymphadenopathy
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Anaemia
Which one of the following signs are not indicative of meningeal irritation?
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Kernig's sign
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Brudzinski's sign
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Neck rigidity
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Hoover's sign
With reference to ozone, as a disinfecting agent of drinking water, consider the following characteristics:
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Powerful oxidizing property
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strong viricidal effect
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Strong residual germicidal effect
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Ability to remove undesirable odour and taste
Which of these are the characteristics of ozone?
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1, 2 and 3
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1, 3 and 4
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1, 2 and 4
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2, 3 and 4
Among the following vaccines, which one is the most heat labile?
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OPV
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Measles
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DPT
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BCG
When the vasectomised person's wife gives birth to a healthy child after vasectomy, which one of the following periods after such vasectomy is considered for declaring it as ‘vasectomy failure’
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Less than 3 months
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3 months to 9 months
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9 months to 12 months
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More than 12 months
Consider the following diseases:
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Acute glomerulonephritis
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rheumatoid arthritis
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Rheumatic fever
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Typhus fever
Which of these diseases could be the result of Streptococcal Group-A infection?
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1, 2, 3 and 4
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1, 2 and 4
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2, 3 and 4
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1 and 3
In the coverage evaluation of immunization programme, the sampling method used is
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Cluser sampling
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Random sampling
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Stratified sampling
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Systematic sampling