FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017
MICROBIOLOGY
PAPER III

POSSESSION/USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE EXAMINATION HALL.
Time 3 hours MICRO/D/17/18/III
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. What is syndromic approach to the laboratory
diagnosis of viral encephalitis? State the advantages
and disadvantages.
Mention present epidemiology of Japanese
encephalitis in India.
5+5
2. Name the Dengue viruses causing infections.
What is the role of neutralizing antibodies in prevention
and control of infections?
State the methods of laboratory diagram of Dengue.

3. Name the present influenza viruses circulating in India.
What is the principle of design and production of
influenza vaccines?
Mention methods of laboratory diagnosis of influenza.

4. Name the viruses causing hepatitis.
What are the treatment modalities of chronic hepatitis

State laboratory diagnosis of cytomegalovirus
infections.

5. Enumerate the clinical spectrum of infections due to
HIV.
What methods are used for the monitoring of patients
on antiretroviral therapy?
Name the new antiretroviral drugs.

6. Discuss the epidemiology of poliomyelitis with special
references to Indian scenario.
What are the preventive and control measures
adopted in India?
Mention the methods to identify vaccine induced polio
infection.

7. What is larva migrans?
Write briefly on various larva migrans.
Define tropical pulmonary eosinophilia and its
pathology.

8. Mention the laboratory diagnosis of malaria.
What is the epidemiology and identification technique
of Plasmodium knowlesi?
5+5
9. Mention the causative agent of congenital toxoplasmosis,
the mode of transmission, laboratory diagnosis and
treatment.

10. Name the intestinal trematodes and mention their
habitat and mode of infection.
Name the common tremade infections seen in India
and state their epidemiology.
What are the control measures for prevention of these
infections?