Biology · Science General
Disease Causative Agents
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Disease causative agents questions test your understanding of viral, bacterial, and fungal infections, along with their transmission methods. These are common topics in general science sections of SSC and railways exams. Practice these questions to accurately identify disease pathogens and symptoms.
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Disease Causative Agents Questions
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis
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Agranulocytosis
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Cold hemagglutinin disease
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Thrombocytopenic purpura
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Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
C
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Explanation
Patients with cold hemagglutinin disease have monoclonal anti-blood group I, leading to an autoimmune hemolytic anemia. It consists of warm-, cold- or mixed-reactive antibody types that are directed against antigens on the red blood cell surface. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection can cause cold hemagglutinin disease.
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Pregnancy
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Lymphoma
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Diabetes mellitus
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Vegetarian diet
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Broad-spectrum antibiotics
D
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There is no evidence that this leads to excess Candida infections or to poor nutrition.
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Diarrhoea
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Gastro entities
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Typhoid
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Pneumonia
D
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Pneumonia is a viral disease. The causative agent of pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumonia.
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Malaria
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Whooping cough
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Plague
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Cholera
B
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Whooping cough (pertussis) is an airborne bacterial disease spread through respiratory droplets. Malaria is mosquito-borne, plague can be spread by fleas, and cholera is water-borne. The question specifically asks for airborne transmission.
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Dengue fever
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Tuberculosis
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Cholera
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Typhoid
B
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Tuberculosis is an air borne disease. The causative pathogen of tuberculosis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Only (ii)
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Both (i) and (iii)
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Only (iii)
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Both (iii) and (iv)
C
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Plague is caused through rate flea bite.
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Small pox, goitre
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Malarial and small pox
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Rabies and Typhoid
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Plague and Rabies
B
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The disease which is required by law to be reported to government authorities to keep it in check is called a notifable disease. For example, Malaria, small pox, plague, cholera, etc.
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Plague
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Goitre
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Measles
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Cholera
B
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Goitre is an endemic disease, which is caused by deficiency of iodine in the diet,
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Zymophages
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Zoophages
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Phycophages
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Mycophages
B
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Explanation
The viruses that infect the higher animals are known as zoophages.
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Hepatitis A
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Hepatitis B
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Hepatitis C
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Hepatitis D
A
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Hepatitis A is transmitted through fecal-oral route.
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Adenoviridae
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Flaviviridae
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Coronaviridae
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Hepadnaviridae
C
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Coronaviridae family of enveloped viruses cause gastroenteritis.
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Only P
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Only Q
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Only R
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P and Q
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Q and R
D
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Cervical cancer can be caused by Human papilloma viruses.
Gallbladder cancer is associated with the bacterium Salmonella typhi.
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Valley fever : Coccidioides immitis
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Argentine haemorrhagic fever : Babesia sp.
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Bolivian haemorrhagic fever : Machupo virus
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Cellulitis disease : Streoptococcus sp.
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Cholera disease : Vibrio sp.
B
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Explanation
Correct answer.
Argentine hemorrhagic fever is caused by Junin virus.
Babesiosis is caused by Babesia sp.
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1 and 2
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2 and 3
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4 and 5
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1, 2 and 3
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1, 4 and 5
D
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Alzheimer's disease is associated with the bacteria Chlamydia pneumoniae and Helicobacter pylori.
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Flavivirus
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Schistosoma japonicum
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Ebola virus
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Salmonella typhi
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Rickettsia typhi
A
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Yellow fever is known historically as yellow jack and is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease. The virus is 40 to 50 nm long, enveloped, positive-sense RNA virus. It is the first human virus discovered and the namesake of the genus Flavivirus of the family Flaviviridae.