An elderly male patient presented with fever, chest pain, and dry cough, sputum culture showed growth on charcoal yeast Extract Medium, theorganism is______________?

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1. A 30 years old patient developed high fever of sudden onset. Peripheral blood smear showed cresent shaped gametocytes. Malaria pigment was dark brown in colour Which of the following malarial parasites is the causative agent ?

   A. Plasmodium vivax
   B. Plasmodium malaria
   C. Plasmodium falciparum
   D. Plasmodium ovale

2. A patient who has had a recent amalgam filling in the upper teeth has a gold filling in the lower teeth, the patient complains of pain. The reason for this can be mainly_____________?

   A. Improper amalgam filling
   B. Pulp exposure
   C. Galvanism
   D. None of the above

3. A 15 years old boy reports with a rapidly growing swelling of the mandible with intermittent pain patient history is that the swelling occurred after an episode of trauma Radiographs reveal formation of new subperiosteal bone producing Onion skin appearance The patient also has lip paresthesia elevated white blood cell count Based on the clinical and radiographic picture, one of the following condition could be considered in the provisional diagnosis_________________?

   A. Fracture of the jaw with cancellous bone formation
   B. Chronic suppurative osteomyelitis
   C. Burkitt’s Lymphoma
   D. Ewing’s sarcoma

4. The medium of choice for culturing yeast from of dimorphic fungi is_________________?

   A. Brain – heart infusion
   B. Sabouraud’s
   C. Sabouraud’s plus antibiotics
   D. Any medium incubated at 35-37°C

5. In a patient with typhoid, diagnosis after 15 days of onset of fever is best done by_____________?

   A. Blood culture
   B. Widal test
   C. Stool culture
   D. Urine culture

6. A child presents with infective skin lesions of the leg. Culture was done which showed gram positive cocci in chains and haemolytic colonies. Which of the following tests will best identify the organism ?

   A. Bile solubility
   B. Optochin sensitivity
   C. Bacitracin sensitivity
   D. Cataslase positive

7. A cerebrospinal fluid of a 2 years old child has been sent to the laboratory to detect the presence of capsulated yeast. The staining technique most commonly employed for the purpose is______________?

   A. India ink preparation
   B. Methanamine silver stain
   C. Ziehl-Neelsen stain
   D. Pyte-ferraco stain

8. A 3-year old child presented with progressive anaemia, jaundice & failure to thrive. O/E: pallor, splenomegaly are seen Peripheral smear showed normoblasts and small round intensely stained red cells. The likely diagnosis is________________?

   A. Here ditary spherocytosis
   B. Thalassaemia
   C. Sickle cell anaemia
   D. Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia

9. Culture medium for corynebacterium diphtheria______________?

   A. Loefflers serum slope
   B. Mc Conkey
   C. Saborauds agar
   D. Lowenstein Jensen Medium

10. Culture medium used for Bordatella pertussis is_________________?

    A. Wilson Blair medium
    B. Bile broth
    C. Bordet Gengou medium
    D. Robertson cooked meat medium