FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
MICROBIOLOGY
PAPER III
MICRO/D/16/18/III
Time 3 hours
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. Enumerate viral infections transmitted by mosquitoes.
Pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis of Zika virus infection.

2. Significance of viral load in diagnostic microbiology.
10
3. Classify oncogenic viruses.
Mechanism of viral oncogenesis.
3+7
4. Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
NIPAH virus
5+5
5. Enumerate viral infections which can spread through needle
prick injury.
Write the post exposure prophylaxis for any two of them.
3+7
6. Enumerate agents of opportunistic intestinal infections and
approach to their laboratory diagnosis.
4+6
7. Lymphatic filariasis in India.
Drug resistance in malaria
5+5
8. Ocular parasitic diseases
Post-Kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis Epidemiology and
immunological perspective
5+5
9. What are prions? Enumerate the diseases caused by prions and
their pathogenesis.

10. Aetiopathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis of primary amoebic
meningoencephalitis.
5+5