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 II
MICRO/D/16/18/II
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. Classify Chlamydia and enumerate the diseases caused by
them.
Approach for laboratory diagnosis of these infections.
3+7
2. Enumerate the causes of chronic meningitis in India.
Its laboratory diagnosis including recent advances.
2+8
3. Non-culture methods for diagnosis of sepsis.
10
4. Epidemiology, clinical features and laboratory diagnosis of
Penicillium marneffei infection.

5. Name the etiological agent and vector of Scrub typhus.
Its epidemiology in India
Laboratory diagnosis of Scrub typhus.

6. Dermatophytes:
Definition
Classifications with examples of each
Lab diagnosis in brief.

7. List the bacterial agents causing urethritis. Describe the mode of
transmission, pathogenicity and laboratory diagnosis of anyone of
them.

8. Virulence factors of candida albicans.
10
9. Different types of serological tests for syphilis.
National strategy for Elimination of Congenital Syphilis (ECS).
5+5
10. Clostridium difficile infection: Risk factors, clinical presentation and
laboratory diagnosis.