Multiple choice

While diagnosing a patient, a doctor concludes as follows - (a) It is a venereal disease. (b) It is caused due to attack of bacteria. (c) There is an infection in genital tube. (d) The infection causes a pus-like discharge.

What may you infer about the disease, causative germs and the medicine the doctor would have prescribed for the patient?

  1. The misconception of the student is that the disease is leprosy.

  2. Leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, penicillin

  3. Gonorrhoea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, penicillin

  4. Syphllis, Treponema, streptomycin

  5. Gonorrhoea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, quinine
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Explanation

As per the symptoms given above, the disease is syphilis and causative germ is Treponema and drug used to cure this disease is penicillin.

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