Infectious Diseases

Q. Name any two diseases each caused by bacteria in plants and animals.

Q.

Which of the following sets include the bacterial diseases?

1. Cholera, Typhoid, Mumps

2. Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Measles

3. Diptheria, Leprosy, Plague

4. Malaria, Mumps, Poliomyelitis

Q.

How does the transmission of each of the following diseases take place ?

(a) Amoebiasis

(b) Malaria

(c) Ascariasis

(d) Pneumonia

Q.

What is the meaning of droplet infection?

Q. Which of the following is a set of bacterial diseases?

1. Cholera, typhoid and mumps
2. Diphtheria, leprosy and plague
3. Malaria, mumps and poliomyelitis
4. Tetanus, tuberculosis and measles

Q.

What is host cell

Q.

Define droplet infection?

Q.

What are sexually transmitted diseases ? Name four such diseases. Which one of them damages the immune system of human body?

Q. Which of the following diseases is curable?

1. Genital warts
2. AIDS
3. Hepatitis-B
4. Genital herpes

Q.

Give two examples each of airborne and waterborne diseases.

Q. The sexually transmitted disease, that can affect both the male and female genitals and may damage the eyes of babies born of infected mother is
(a) AIDS. (c) syphilis
(c) gonorrhea. (d) hepatitis

Q. Assertion: Symptoms of amoebic dysentery include stool with blood and mucus, abdominal pain and constipation.
Reason: Amoebic dysentery is caused by Shigella sp.

1. Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation for the assertion
2. Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation for the assertion
3. Assertion is true but the reason is false
4. Both the assertion and the reason are false

Q. The active form of Entamoeba histolytica feeds upon :

1. Blood only
2. Mucosa and submucosa of colon only
3. Erythrocytes, mucosa and Submucosa of colon
4. Food in intestine

Q. Retroviruses do not follow central Dogma. Comment.

Q. Diseases like dysentery, cholera, typhoid etc., are more common in overcrowded human settlements. Why?

Q. Which of the following complication is/are not related with STDs ?
a. Pelvic inflammatory diseases
b. Still births
c. Ectopic pregnancies
d. Erythroblastosis foetalis

1. d only
2. a and b
3. c and d
4. a, b and c

Q. Chikungunya disease spreads through the bite of which mosquito

Q.

How does the transmission of each of the following diseases take place?

(a) Amoebiasis

(b) Malaria

(c) Ascariasis

(d) Pneumonia

Q. Smallpox is due to

Q.

Small pox and rabies are caused by

1. Protozoan

2. Nematode+

3. Bacterium

4. Virus

Q. Diphtheria is characterised by

1. Hydrophobia
   
2. Gum bleeding
   
3. Dehydration
   
4. Suffocation

Q.

Diseases are broadly grouped into infectious and non- infectious diseases. In the list given below, identify the infectious diseases:

(i) Cancer (ii) Influenza

(iii) Allergy (iv) Small pox

1. (ii) and (iv)

2. (iii) and (iv)

3. (i) and (ii)

4. (ii) and (iii)

Q. What are pathogens? Give examples.

Q. Name the micro-organisms that causes infectious disease and name few diseases caused by each micro organism.

Q. Droplet infection occurs in case of

1. Tetanus
2. Typhoid
3. Syphilis
4. Pneumonia

Q. Droplet infection occurs in case of

1. Tetanus
2. Typhoid
3. Syphilis
4. Pneumonia

Q. An STD showing early symptom of characteristic chancre (a skin sore) on the genitals is caused by the infection of

1. Treponema pallidum
2. Neisseria gonorrhoeae
3. Human immunodeficiency virus
4. E.coli

Q. Common cold spreads much faster than AIDS.​

Q. Match the causative agent with their diseases.

1. Athlete's foot - Vericella, German measles - Variola, Filariasis - Rubella, Small pox - Trichophyton, Chickenpox - Wuchereria
2. Chickenpox - Rubella, Small pox - Vericella, German measles - Variola, Filariasis - Trichophyton, Athlete's foot - Wuchereria
3. Small pox - Variola, Chickenpox - Vericella, German measles - Rubella, Athlete's foot - Trichophyton, Filariasis - Wuchereria.
4. Athlete's foot - Rubella, German measles - Trichophyton, Filariasis - Variola, Chickenpox - Vericella, Small pox - Wuchereria

Q.

What does the latin word phage mean?