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Discipline: Parasitology
A) Protozoology (MCQs)
Answer
Key
17)
Common name of Glossina species is
A
A. Tsetse fly
B. Horse fly
C. Both
D. None
18)
Biological vector of sleeping sickness is
A
A. Tsetse fly
B. Horse fly
C. House fly
D. None
19)
Swelling of the lymph nodes in African trypanosomiasis is called as
C
A. Winterbottom’s sign
B. Spring bottom sign
C. Both
D. None
20)
Trypanosoma equiperdum cause disease in equines called as
B
A. Nagana
B. Dourin
C. Surra
D. Muri
21)
Dourine in equines is transmitted by
D
A. Insect biting
B. Contaminated food
C. Both
D. Coitus
22)
Surra in animals is caused by
C
A.
Trypanosoma brucei
B.
Trypanosoma cruzi
C.
Trypanosoma evansi
D.
Trypanosoma equi
23)
The test used to detect raised levels of IgG and IgM in Trypanosoma evansi infected individuals is the
D
A. Thymol turbidity test
B. Card agglutination test
C. Mercuric chloride test
D. Formol gel test
24)
Trypanosoma species can be culture in vitro on a number of medium including
C
A. NNN mediu
B. Weinmann’s medium
C. Both
D. None
25)
Surra in animals can be diagnosed by
D
A. Thymol turbidity test
B. Card agglutination test
C. Mercuric chloride test
D. All above
26)
IgG and IgM levels raised in parasitic infections like
D
A. Malaria
B. Leishmaniasis
C. Schistosomiasis
D. All above
27)
Mal de Caderas is a fatal, usually chronic disease of equines caused by
A
A.
Trypanosoma equinum
B.
Trypanosoma congolense
C.
Trypanosoma evansi
D. All above
28)
Paragona in cattle and other animals is an acute fatal disease caused by
B
A.
Trypanosoma equinum
B.
Trypanosoma congolense
C. Both
D.
Trypanosoma evansi
29)
Souma, a disease of cattle, sheep, goat and horses, is caused by
D
A.
Trypanosoma evansi
B.
Trypanosoma equinum
C.
Trypanosoma congolense
D.
Trypanosome vivax
30)
Chaga’s disease can be diagnosed by
A
A. Xenodiagnosis
B. Thymol turbidity tes
C. Both
D. Mercuric chloride test
31)
American trypanosomiasis is transmitted by
A
A. Kissing bugs
B. Tsetse fly
C. Both
D. Horse fly
32)
Trypanosoma
melophagium is transmitted cyclically in the hindgut by the sheep ked called
B
A.
Stomoxys calcitran
B.
Molophagus ovinus
C. Both
D. None
33)
Which of the following species infects primates
A
A.
Trichomonad. suis
B.
P. hominis
C.
T. buttey
D.
Tt. rotunda
34)
Which of the following species does not inhabit the gastro-intestinal tract
C