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Virology MCQs

The document contains 23 multiple choice questions about various viruses: 1) The questions cover topics like incubation periods of different viruses including mumps, hepatitis types A, B, and C, and influenza. 2) They also address laboratory diagnosis of hepatitis viruses, characteristics of hepatitis E virus, signs of measles infection, and causal viruses for diseases presenting with symptoms like coryza and Koplik's spots. 3) Additionally, the questions cover markers of hepatitis B infection, viral causes of congenital malformations, manifestations of mumps and cytomegalovirus, structural components found in all viruses, effects of HIV and characteristics of poliovirus infection.

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Virology MCQs

The document contains 23 multiple choice questions about various viruses: 1) The questions cover topics like incubation periods of different viruses including mumps, hepatitis types A, B, and C, and influenza. 2) They also address laboratory diagnosis of hepatitis viruses, characteristics of hepatitis E virus, signs of measles infection, and causal viruses for diseases presenting with symptoms like coryza and Koplik's spots. 3) Additionally, the questions cover markers of hepatitis B infection, viral causes of congenital malformations, manifestations of mumps and cytomegalovirus, structural components found in all viruses, effects of HIV and characteristics of poliovirus infection.

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Virology MCQs

1) Incubation period of

a. Mumps is three days

b. Viral hepatitis type B is two days

c. Influenza is 60 to 90 days

d. Measles is 90 to 200 days

e. Viral hepatitis type C is 6 to 12 weeks

2) The incubation period of viral hepatitis type A is

a. 360 to 900 days

b. 10 to 50 days

c. 5 to 10 days

d. 3 to 5 day

e. 1 to 3 days

3) Delta hepatitis only occurs in patients who also have either acute or chronic infection with hepatitis B
virus. The delta agent is

a. An incomplete hepatitis B virus

b. Related to hepatitis A virus

c. A hepatitis B mutant

d. An incomplete RNA virus

e. Hepatitis C

4) IgM antibody to the viral particle is the method of choice for laboratorydiagnosis of which one of the
following hepatitis viruses?
a. Hepatitis A

b. Hepatitis B

c. Hepatitis C

d. Hepatitis D

e. Hepatitis E

5) This virus belongs to the family of flaviviruses and its reservoir is strictly human. Transmission is
blood-borne so the blood supply is routinely screened for this virus.

a. Hepatitis A

b. Hepatitis B

c. Hepatitis C

d. Hepatitis D

e. Hepatitis E

6) Vaccination for this hepatic disease is with viral surface antigen and usually provides immunity.

a. Hepatitis A

b. Hepatitis B

c. Hepatitis C

d. Hepatitis D

e. Hepatitis E

7) A day or 2 before the rash appears, the patient develops small red-based lesions with blue white
centers in the mouth called Koplik's spots is Pathognomic of which virus

a. Measles virus

b. Influenza virus
c. Respiratory syncytial virus

d. Parainfluenza virus

e. Adenovirus

8) A 3-year-old child presents at the physician’s office with symptoms of coryza, conjunctivitis, low-grade
fever, andKoplik’s spots. The causative agent of this disease belongs to which group of viruses?

a. Adenovirus

b. Herpesvirus

c. Picornavirus

d. Orthomyxovirus

e. Paramyxovirus

9) Hepatitis E, a hepatitis virus, is best described by which of the following statements?

a. Its transmission occurs by faecal–oral route

b. It is a major cause of blood-borne hepatitis

c. It is prevalent in North America

d. It is a single-stranded DNA virus

e. The disease resembles hepatitis C

10) The presence of Negri inclusion bodies in host cells is characteristic of

a. Mumps

b. Infectious mononucleosis

c. Congenital rubella

d. Aseptic meningitis

e. Rabies
11) Hepatitis D virus is a defective virus that can replicate only in cells already infected with which of the
following viruses?

a. Hepatitis A virus

b. Epstein-Barr virus

c. Hepatitis G virus

d. Hepatitis B virus

e. HIV

12) A patient has all the gastrointestinal symptoms of infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV), yet all the
tests for HAV-IgG and HAV-IgM are nonreactive. A possible cause of this infection is

a. Hepatitis B surface antigen

b. Hepatitis C

c. Hepatitis D

d. Hepatitis E

e. Rotavirus

13) Which of the following markers denotes highly infective Hapatitis B disease?

a. HBeAg

b. HBsAg

c. HBcAg

d. Anti-HBc

e. HbeAb

14) Which of the following may be the only detectable serological marker during the early phase of HBV
infection (window phase)?

a. HBeAg
b. HBsAg

c. HBcAg

d. Anti-HBc Ag

e. HbeAb

15) Which one of the following viruses is the cause of congenital malformations?

a. Rabies

b. Rhinovirus

c. Rubella

d. Respiratory syncytial virus

e. Mumps

16) Orchitis, which may cause sterility, is a possible manifestation of which of the following?

a. Rabies

b. Rhinovirus

c. Cytomegalovirus

d. Respiratory syncytial virus

e. Mumps

17) A structural component that is found in all viruses is:

a. The envelope

b. DNA

c. Capsid

d. Tail fibers  
e. Spikes

18) In AIDS, HIV kills

A Bone-Marrow cells

B T-Helper cell

C Antibody molecule

D T-Cytotoxic cell

19) The non-living characteristic of viruses is

A ability to undergo mutation

B ability to cause diseases in the host

C ability to multiply only inside the host

D ability to be crystallized

20) German Measles in an infection of

a. Measles
b. Rubella
c. Polio
d. Mumps
e. Cytomegalo virus

21)Dengue virus has how many serotypes

a. One
b. Four
c. Six
d. Five
e. Seven

22)The WHO case definition of Dangue Hemolytic Fever is a patient with four criteria,which one is not
of them:

a. Acute sudden onset of high fever for 2–7 days.


b. Haemorrhagic manifestations with at least a positive torniquit
c. Platelet count ,100 *109/l.
d. Haemoconcentration (rising packed cell volume >20%)
e. Vomiting for three days

23) The classic presentation of paralytic poliomyelitis is flaccid paralysis, most often affecting

a. The lower limbs


b. The Upper Limbs
c. Right side of body
d. Left side of body
e. Only Right Hand of Body

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