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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. Only a

  2. Only a and b

  3. Only b

  4. Only b and c

  5. Only c

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

Viruses are bigger in size than bacteria, is a false statement. Thus, it is the correct option. Viruses are much smaller in size than bacteria.

Multiple choice
  1. Typhoid disease

  2. TB

  3. Cholera

  4. Malaria

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

Pea soup diarrhoea is the feature of Typhoid fever. This is an acute bacterial disease caused by Salmonella typhi. Typhoid germs are passed in the feces and, to some extent, the urine of infected people. The germs are spread by eating or drinking water or food contaminated by feces (or urine) from the infected individual.

Multiple choice
  1. Bells palsy

  2. Syphilis

  3. Hyper sclerosis

  4. Gonorrhea

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

If one can diagnose urethritis and cervicitis, the disease is most likely to be Gonorrhea. Most of the time, a urine test can be used to test for gonorrhea. However, if a person has had oral and/or anal sex, swabs may be used to collect samples from the throat and/or rectum. In some cases, a swab may be used to collect a sample from a man's urethra (urine canal) or a woman's cervix (opening to the womb).

Multiple choice
  1. Typhoid

  2. Jaundice

  3. Mumps

  4. Influenza

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

Typhoid fever is a severe infection caused by a bacterium, Salmonella typhi. S. typhi is in the same family of bacteria as the type spread by chicken and eggs, commonly known as salmonella poisoning or food poisoning. S. typhi bacteria do not have vomiting and diarrhea as the most prominent symptoms of their presence in humans. Instead, persistently high fever is the hallmark of S. typhi infection. 

Multiple choice
  1. RNA

  2. Virus

  3. Amoeba

  4. Bacteria

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

A virus is non living and relies solely on the 'host' for survival. Viruses are so primitive that many scientists consider them to be both living and nonliving things. By itself, a virus is a lifeless particle that cannot reproduce. But inside a living cell, a virus becomes an active organism that can multiply hundreds of times. 

Multiple choice
  1. Saprophytic

  2. Pathogenic

  3. Viruses

  4. Staptococci

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

Pathogens are organisms, frequently microorganisms, or components of these organisms, that cause disease. Microbial pathogens include various species of bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. Many diseases caused by microbial pathogens, and the frequency of these diseases, are a national security issue. 

Multiple choice
  1. Tumour

  2. AIDS

  3. Tuberculosis

  4. Paralytic stroke

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

AIDS can pose a serious threat to the economic and social development of South Asian countries including India, which has chunk of regions HIV infected population, the World Bank has said. There are estimated 2.6 million people suffering from the dreaded disease in the region. 

Multiple choice
  1. Cancer

  2. Rabies

  3. AIDS

  4. Influenza

  5. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

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

Cancer is a disease caused by the uncontrolled division of abnormal cells, not by a viral infection. Rabies, AIDS, Influenza, and SARS are all caused by viruses.

Multiple choice
  1. viral fever

  2. flu

  3. malaria

  4. hepatitis

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

Jaundice is a symptom of liver dysfunction, often associated with hepatitis, which is the inflammation of the liver.