Communicable Diseases
Exam Questions with
Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
, Causative agents of Meningococcemia - Correct Answer: Neisseria meningitides, H. Influenzae, and S.
Pneumoniae
MOT of Meningococcemia - Correct Answer: Droplets to blood stream to CNS
Incubation period of Meningococcemia - Correct Answer: 1-2 days
usually starts as a nasopharyngitis, followed by sudden onset of spiking fever, chills, arthralgia - Correct
Answer: Meningococcemia
Where in the brain does bleeding occur - Correct Answer: Medulla
Symptoms are septic chock, hypotension, tachycardia, enlarging petecchial rash, and adrenal
insufficiency - Correct Answer: Fulminant Meningococcemia or Waterhouse Friedrichsen Syndrome
anttimicrobial treatment of meningococcemia - Correct Answer: benzyl penicillin and chloramphenicol
Causative agent of Diphtheria - Correct Answer: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Incubation period of diphtheria - Correct Answer: 2-5 days
Source of diphtheria - Correct Answer: discharges of the nose, pharynx, eyes, or lesion of other parts of
the body infected
Mode of transmission of Diphtheria - Correct Answer: Direct/ Indirect contact- airborne/droplet, fomites
Toxin- producing organism in Diphtheria - Correct Answer: Exotoxin
Inflammation of cervical LN; neck tissues are edmatous - Correct Answer: bullneck