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Human Diseases and Immunology

Test your knowledge of human diseases, the immune system, disease transmission, and related medical terminology.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

___________ is a foreign material triggers antibody formation. They are proteins or polysaccharides.

  1. Humoral immune system
  2. Antibody
  3. Antigen
  4. Cell mediated immune system
  5. Infection
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a symptom of AIDS?

  1. Swollen lymph nodes
  2. Weight gain
  3. Night sweats
  4. Weight loss
  5. Fever
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the rate of production of anti-bodies by B-cells?

  1. 4000 molecules/second
  2. 4500 molecules/second
  3. 3000 molecules/second
  4. 2000 molecules/second
  5. 1000 molecules/second
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a symptom of Dengue?

  1. Chills and headache
  2. Painful aching in legs and joints
  3. Backache
  4. Eyes become reddned
  5. Gland in the neck and groin are never swollen.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Plasmodium vivax is the pathogen of which disease?

  1. Amoebiasis
  2. Mild tertian malaria
  3. Benign malaria
  4. Quartan malaria
  5. Pernicious malaria
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Contaminated food and water is not a mode of infection of which of the following diseases?

  1. Typhoid
  2. Ascariasis
  3. Amoebiasis
  4. Pneumonia
  5. Diarrhoea
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Chemicals, which control allergic reactions are ____________.

  1. interferons
  2. antihistamines
  3. lysozyme
  4. immunosuppressants
  5. lymphocytes
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who discovered passive immunity?

  1. Von Behring
  2. Edward Jenner
  3. Louis Pasteur
  4. Salk
  5. John F Enders
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a correct pair?

  1. Iron-Anaemia
  2. Nicotinic acid-Pellagra
  3. Vitamin D-Rickets
  4. Osteoarthritis-Arthritis
  5. Vitamin A-T.B.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the incubation period of corynebacterium diptheriae?

  1. 12 hours
  2. 1 week
  3. 48 hours
  4. 2 weeks
  5. 24 hours
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following sentences is incorrect?


  1. Disease refers to any condition that impairs normal function, and is therefore associated with dysfunction of normal homeostasis.<o:p></o:p>
  2. A Disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.

  3. Pre-disease is a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause.<o:p></o:p>

  4. A syndrome is the association of several medical signs, symptoms, and or other characteristics that often occur together.<o:p></o:p>
  5. An organic disease is one caused by a physical or physiological change to some tissue or organ of the body.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a factor, which influences any infection?

  1. Invasiveness
  2. Tissue affinity
  3. Hypersensitivity
  4. Infective dose
  5. Portal of entry
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a direct mode of transmission of diseases?

  1. Direct contact
  2. Droplet infection
  3. Contact with water
  4. Being bit by an infected animal
  5. Trans-placental transmission
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What prevents immune system from attacking body's own cells?

  1. Stem cells
  2. Complement system
  3. Suppressor cells
  4. Tears
  5. Saliva
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

H1N1 influenza virus is the causative organism of which disease?

  1. Typhoid
  2. Swine flu
  3. Common cold
  4. Influenza
  5. Pneumonia
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