Infectious Diseases Quizzes, Questions & Answers
Recent Infectious Diseases Quizzes
Questions: 25 | Attempts: 428 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionAn 8-year-old boy is taken to a pediatrician because of behavioral changes, mild intellectual deterioration, and "laziness." Over the next several months the boy develops increasing clumsiness and periodic, involuntary, jerky movements every 3 to 6 seconds. Visual deterioration is apparent upon visual field testing, and optic atrophy is evident on funduscopic examination. Cerebrospinal fluid studies do not show significant pleocytosis, but oligoclonal bands of IgG are present on CSF electrophoresis. The electroencephalogram shows periodic discharges that are synchronous with the periods of myoclonus. Computed tomography (CT) of the head shows low-density white matter lesions and cerebral atrophy. At the age of 10, the boy dies. Prior infection with which of the following agents was probably related to the patient's condition?
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 7775 | Last updated: Jul 4, 2025
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Sample QuestionWhat is another name for Schistosomiasis?
Questions: 16 | Attempts: 436 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2025
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Sample QuestionA 9-year-old girl with known history of cystic fibrosis since birth now complains of increased difficulty breathing for over the past week. Her vital signs include T 38.5 C, P 80/minute, RR 30/minute, and BP 110/60 mm Hg. A chest radiograph shows prominent bronchial markings and some bronchi appear markedly distended. No other infiltrates or masses are present. Which of the following does she most likely have?
Questions: 7 | Attempts: 1345 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionA 38-year-old male UN peacekeeper returning from Liberia, western Africa, presents with fever, malaise, asthenia, cough, sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Later in the course of the disease, the patients presents with mucosal bleeding, conjunctival injection, face edema, rales, and hypotension. The patient is treated with ribavirin administered intravenously. Pre-immune serum from the patient is negative for hemorrhagic fever viruses, but serum obtained from the patient 15 days after resolution of the illness is positive for an enveloped, segmented (-) ssRNA virus. What is the reservoir host of the virus responsible for this patient’s disease?
Questions: 20 | Attempts: 111 | Last updated: Oct 22, 2025
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Sample QuestionWho discovered the cure for syphilis?
Questions: 9 | Attempts: 473 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionClostridium perfringens is notable for causing gas gangrene. Which other condition is this bacterium associated with?
Questions: 22 | Attempts: 616 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025
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Sample QuestionA 15-year-old boy has a positive monospot test. He has a mild pharyngitis followed by generalized lymphadenopathy, malaise, and mild scleral icterus. His spleen tip is also palpable. He recovers in a month. Which of the following is the most likely finding on the peripheral smear?
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 333 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionWhat is the predominant organism in children younger than 9 months of age according to the studies provided?
Questions: 15 | Attempts: 353 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionAll of the following are true of Chlamydia Trachomits infections except what?
Questions: 115 | Attempts: 131 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionWhich of the following is the generic name for Veetids:
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