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

Multiple choice
  1. Hashimoto's thyroiditis

  2. Agranulocytosis

  3. Cold hemagglutinin disease

  4. Thrombocytopenic purpura

  5. Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
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.

Multiple choice
  1. Malaria

  2. Whooping cough

  3. Plague

  4. Cholera

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

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.

Multiple choice
  1. Small pox, goitre

  2. Malarial and small pox

  3. Rabies and Typhoid

  4. Plague and Rabies

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

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.

Multiple choice
  1. Valley fever : Coccidioides immitis

  2. Argentine haemorrhagic fever : Babesia sp.

  3. Bolivian haemorrhagic fever : Machupo virus

  4. Cellulitis disease : Streoptococcus sp.

  5. Cholera disease : Vibrio sp.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct answer. Argentine hemorrhagic fever is caused by Junin virus. Babesiosis is caused by Babesia sp.

Multiple choice
  1. Flavivirus

  2. Schistosoma japonicum

  3. Ebola virus

  4. Salmonella typhi

  5. Rickettsia typhi

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

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.