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MT AAB MICROBIOLOGY BRAND
NEW OFFICIAL QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS.
1. Which one of the following organisms has a wide, refractive
capsule? - correct answer -Cryptococcus neoformans
2. What does the tissue phase of Histoplasma capsulatum
characteristically show? - correct answer -Tuberculate
macroconidia
3. What is the infective form of dimorphic fungi for laboratory
workers? - correct answer -Hyphal form
4. Which intestinal flagellate trophozoite has a sucking disk, two
nuclei, eight flagella, and an axostyle? - correct answer -
Giardia lamblia
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5. Which malarial species can be identified by the presence of
crescent-shaped gametocytes in the peripheral blood? - correct
answer -Plasmodium falciparum
6. Which of the following worms has an oral and ventral cup-
shaped sucker in the adult stage? - correct answer -
Trematodes
7. What is the common name for schistosomes? - correct answer
-Blood flukes
8. Which tapeworm could be acquired through the ingestion of
medium-rare steak? - correct answer -Taenia saginata
9. Which tapeworm eggs have an operculum at one end and a
small terminal knob at the other end? - correct answer -
Diphyllobothrium latum
10. Which intestinal roundworm migrates to the perianal skin to
deposit embryonated eggs? - correct answer -Enterobius
vermicularis
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11. Muscle biopsy is a diagnostic technique employed to detect
which one of the following tissue roundworms? - correct answer
-Trichinella spiralis
12. Cutaneous larva migrans or creeping eruption is caused by
which organism? - correct answer -Ancylostoma braziliense
13. Which zoonoses can be caused by the ingestion of raw fish
infected with larvae from sashimi? - correct answer -Anisakiasis
14. What color does the cytoplasm of protozoan cysts stain in
the iodine wet stool preparation? - correct answer -Yellow-
brown
15. All of the following are advantages to the sedimentation
method EXCEPT for which one? - correct answer -Separates
protozoan cysts and helminth eggs
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16. What is a mature virus particle containing a nucleic acid core
surrounded by a protein coat, with or without an envelope
called? - correct answer -Virion
17. All of the following are consided potential viroterrorism
agents EXCEPT which virus? - correct answer -SARS-CoV
virus
18. Which of the following is an RNA virus? - correct answer -
Orthomyxoviridae
19. Enteric cytopathic human orphan viruses are known by what
name? - correct answer -Echoviruses
20. If the initial HIV screening test is positive, then what should
the next step of action be? - correct answer -Repeat in
duplicate before confirming test results.
21. Influenza A viruses can most rapidly be detected by which
procedure? - correct answer -Direct antigen testing
MT AAB MICROBIOLOGY BRAND
NEW OFFICIAL QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS.
1. Which one of the following organisms has a wide, refractive
capsule? - correct answer -Cryptococcus neoformans
2. What does the tissue phase of Histoplasma capsulatum
characteristically show? - correct answer -Tuberculate
macroconidia
3. What is the infective form of dimorphic fungi for laboratory
workers? - correct answer -Hyphal form
4. Which intestinal flagellate trophozoite has a sucking disk, two
nuclei, eight flagella, and an axostyle? - correct answer -
Giardia lamblia
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5. Which malarial species can be identified by the presence of
crescent-shaped gametocytes in the peripheral blood? - correct
answer -Plasmodium falciparum
6. Which of the following worms has an oral and ventral cup-
shaped sucker in the adult stage? - correct answer -
Trematodes
7. What is the common name for schistosomes? - correct answer
-Blood flukes
8. Which tapeworm could be acquired through the ingestion of
medium-rare steak? - correct answer -Taenia saginata
9. Which tapeworm eggs have an operculum at one end and a
small terminal knob at the other end? - correct answer -
Diphyllobothrium latum
10. Which intestinal roundworm migrates to the perianal skin to
deposit embryonated eggs? - correct answer -Enterobius
vermicularis
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11. Muscle biopsy is a diagnostic technique employed to detect
which one of the following tissue roundworms? - correct answer
-Trichinella spiralis
12. Cutaneous larva migrans or creeping eruption is caused by
which organism? - correct answer -Ancylostoma braziliense
13. Which zoonoses can be caused by the ingestion of raw fish
infected with larvae from sashimi? - correct answer -Anisakiasis
14. What color does the cytoplasm of protozoan cysts stain in
the iodine wet stool preparation? - correct answer -Yellow-
brown
15. All of the following are advantages to the sedimentation
method EXCEPT for which one? - correct answer -Separates
protozoan cysts and helminth eggs
, Page | 4
16. What is a mature virus particle containing a nucleic acid core
surrounded by a protein coat, with or without an envelope
called? - correct answer -Virion
17. All of the following are consided potential viroterrorism
agents EXCEPT which virus? - correct answer -SARS-CoV
virus
18. Which of the following is an RNA virus? - correct answer -
Orthomyxoviridae
19. Enteric cytopathic human orphan viruses are known by what
name? - correct answer -Echoviruses
20. If the initial HIV screening test is positive, then what should
the next step of action be? - correct answer -Repeat in
duplicate before confirming test results.
21. Influenza A viruses can most rapidly be detected by which
procedure? - correct answer -Direct antigen testing
