WorksheetsKala-azar and Bartonellosis Quiz
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Worksheet time: 9mins
Kala-azar is also known as
Enteric fever
Visceral leishmaniasis
Malaria
Dengue fever
Etiological agent of kala-azar in India is
Leishmania tropica
Leishmania donovani
Leishmania braziliensis
Trypanosoma cruzi
Vector of kala-azar is
Female Anopheles mosquito
Female sandfly (Phlebotomus)
Aedes mosquito
Culex mosquito
Infective stage of Leishmania for humans is
Amastigote
Promastigote
Trophozoite
Sporozoite
Diagnostic stage found in human tissues is
Promastigote
Amastigote
Ookinete
Gametocyte
Leishmania amastigotes are also called
Schuffner dots
LD bodies
Negri bodies
Inclusion bodies
Kala-azar primarily affects
Intestine
Liver spleen and bone marrow
Lungs
Brain
Clinical feature of kala-azar includes all EXCEPT
Prolonged fever
Massive splenomegaly
Weight loss
Parotid swelling
Pancytopenia in kala-azar is due to
Renal failure
Bone marrow suppression
Dehydration
Hemolysis only
Most definitive laboratory diagnosis of kala-azar is by demonstration of
Acid fast bacilli in sputum
LD bodies in splenic aspirate
Widal test positivity
Malarial parasite in smear
Culture medium used for Leishmania is
Loeffler medium
Lowenstein-Jensen medium
NNN medium
MacConkey agar
Serological test commonly used for kala-azar is
Widal test
rK39 test
Weil-Felix test
Paul-Bunnell test
Drug commonly used in treatment of kala-azar is
Chloroquine
Sodium stibogluconate
Penicillin
Metronidazole
Preferred drug for visceral leishmaniasis in many settings is
Oral ampicillin
Amphotericin B
Azithromycin
Ceftriaxone
Bartonellosis (Carrion’s disease) is caused by
Bartonella bacilliformis
Bartonella henselae
Rickettsia prowazekii
Brucella melitensis
Cat scratch disease is caused by
Bartonella bacilliformis
Bartonella henselae
Coxiella burnetii
Chlamydia psittaci
Bartonella henselae commonly causes
Enteric fever
Bacillary angiomatosis
Cholera
Diphtheria
Oroya fever is a manifestation of
Bartonella bacilliformis
Bartonella henselae
Salmonella typhi
Vibrio cholerae
