CD Exams and Rationale

a. Chikungunya virus
1.Preventive measures for malaria least likely include:
a.Plating of Neem trees and other herbal plants.
b.Wearing of clothing that covers the arms and legs
at daytime.
c.Using mosquito repellents, mosquito coils.
d.None of these
b. Aedes Aegypti
C. Common household mosquito
d. Infected person
9. Based on the National Tuberculosis Control Program
patients with TB are recommended to seek
hospitalization if they have the following condition:

2. A person who harbors the microorganism but does a. Massive hemoptysis

not manifest the signs and symptoms of the disease is b. Pleural effusion
called: c. With complications
a. Contact b. Infected c. Suspect d. Carrier d. All of these

3. To prevent whooping cough, which of the following 10. Direct sputum smear microscopy (DSSM) is the
vaccines should be given to infants? primary diagnostic tool in tuberculosis case finding.
a. BCG b. DPT c. OPV d. IPV Which of the following conditions does a DSSM is
contraindicated?
4. Treatment regimen for Category I TB patient on the
continuation phase includes which Anti-TB drugs? a. Fever
a. Isoniazid and Rifampicin b. Cough
b. Pyrazinamide and Ethambutol c. Hemoptysis
c. Etambutol and Streptomycin d. Tonsillitis
d. Pyrazinamide, Etambutol, Isoniazid and Rifampicin
11. Rumpel Leads Test for DHF is positive when:
5.The drug of choice for Schistosomiasis that kills all a. 10-15 petechiae per 2.5 cm square or 1 inch
types of microorganisms that can cause this
square are observed
communicable disease is: b. No petechiae are present
a.Metrifonate c. Oxamniquine c. 15-20 petechiae per 2.5 cm square or 1 inch
c. Diethylcarbamazine Citrate d. Praziquantel square are observed
d. 20 or more petechiae per 2.5 cm square or 1
6.Nematode parasites Brugia Malayi and Wuchereria inch square are observed
Bancrofti causes the communicable disease called:
12. Clinical manifestations of DHF are divided into 3
a. Schistosomiasis b.Epidemic Parotitis stages. Which of the following is least likely observed
c. Diphtheria d. Filariasis during the toxic stage?
7. Prevention of TB includes the following measures: a. Severe abdominal pain
b. Hematemesis
a. BCG vaccination newborns
c. High fever
b. Public education about TB and its mode of
d. Unstable BP
c. transmission, methods of control and early diagnosis.
Availability and accessibility of medical, laboratory and x- 13. Which of the following term refers to the degree of
ray facilities for examination. pathogenicity of a microbe, or in other words the
d. All of these relative ability of a microbe to cause disease?

8.A child is diagnosed with dengue fever. The etiologic

agent for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is:
 during the intensive phase. Intensive phase in Category
a. Susceptibility
III patients lasts for:
b. Virulence
c. Infection a. 2 months
d. None of the above b. 3 months
c. 4 months
14. The most hazardous period for development of
d. 5 months
clinical disease is how many months after infection with
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis? 20. During the fastidial stage of typhoid fever 3 cardinal
symptoms are observed to the client. These cardinal
a. 4-5 months symptoms include the following except:
b. 2-3 months
c. 6-12 months a. Ladder-like fever
d. 12-18 months b. Rose spot
c. Splenomegaly
15. The time interval between the first exposure to the d. Hematochezia
appearance of the first signs and symptoms is called:
21. A client with TB who is taking anti-TB drugs who
a. Prodromal period calls the nurse because of urine discoloration. According
b. Incubation period to the client his urine turned reddish-orange. The nurse
c. Stage of illness told the client that the reddish-orange discoloration of
d. Convalescence urine is the side effect of which anti-TB drug?
16. Treatment for filariasis includes the administration
of which drug? a. Isoniazid
b. Rifampicin
a. Metrifonate
c. Pyrazinamide
b. Oxamniquine
d. Ethambutol
c. Diethylcarbamazine Citrate
d. Praziquantel 22.The child presents with high fever and less
17. Pertussis is becoming communicable during which hemorrhage. The child’s DHF is classified as:
stage of illness?
a. Mild
a. Catarrhal stage b. Moderate
b. Paroxysmal stage c. Severe
c. Convalescence d. No DHF
d. All of these
23. Klebs-Loeffler Bacillus is the etiologic agent of which
18. The mother of an infant with pertussis should be communicable disease?
instructed of the following except: a. Schistosomiasis
a. Provide abdominal support b. Epidemic Parotitis
b. Feed the child during an attack c. Diphtheria
c. Allow the child to rest d. Filariasis
d. Special attention to diet is needed when the
24. A client with TB has been treated before with Anti-
child vomits after cough paroxysms.
TB drug, however the treatment failed. The client is
19. Mang Jose is Category III TB patient. He asked the under which category of TB patient?
nurse about the duration of his treatment regimen
 a. Category I
b. Category II
c. Category III
d. Category IV

25. Prodromal period is best described as:

a. the gradual recovery of health and strength

after illness
b. patient is actually manifesting the signs and
symptoms of the disease
c. first exposure to disease
d. premonition of an impending attack of a
disease

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