Microbiology Mcqs
Question: Causative agents of Vincent’s angina_____________?
- 1. Borrelia vincenti and fusobacterium fusiformis
- 2. Borrelia recurrents and bateroides
- 3. Borrelia burgoloferi and lactobacillus
- 4. Leptospira and Treponema pallidum
Question: A protoplast is best characterized as a bacterial cell______________?
- 1. with a cell wall but free of a capsule
- 2. containing a cell wall and a capsule
- 3. Free of a cell wall and a capsule
- 4. Uniquely sensitive to penicillin
Question: Which regards to temperature requirement, most pathogenic bacteria are_____________?
- 1. Psychrophiles
- 2. Mesophiles
- 3. Cryophiles
- 4. Thermophiles
Question: One of the following is an agglutination test in the diagnosis of typhoid___________?
- 1. Widal test
- 2. Eleks test
- 3. Mantoux test
- 4. Wasserman test
Question: Staphylococci typically occur in_________________?
- 1. Pairs
- 2. Chains
- 3. Tetrads
- 4. Irregular clusters
Question: In a patient with typhoid, diagnosis after 15 days of onset of fever is best done by_____________?
- 1. Blood culture
- 2. Widal test
- 3. Stool culture
- 4. Urine culture
Question: The virulence factors of Neisseria gonorrhea include all of the following except____________?
- 1. Outer membrane proteins
- 2. IgA Protease
- 3. M-Proteins
- 4. Pili
Question: The genetic ability of a bacterium to grow in the presence of several antibiotics is passed in vivo from one bacterium to another by_____________?
- 1. Conjugation
- 2. Rarefaction
- 3. Transduction
- 4. Transformation
Question: One of the following is a treponemal test for diagnosis of syphilis_____________?
- 1. FTAB
- 2. Widal test
- 3. Wasserman test
- 4. Kahn test
Question: For uniform staining reaction, morphology and biochemical activity it is advisable to study bacterial cultures during the_____________?
- 1. Lag phase
- 2. Death phase
- 3. Stationary phase
- 4. Logarithmic phase