Tag: infectious diseases
Questions Related to infectious diseases
The most mutable virus is
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Chicken Pox Virus
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$HIV$
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Influenza Virus
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Dengue Virus
AIDS does not spread through
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Common syringes and needles
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Blood transfusion
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Sexual contact
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Sharing meals
- HIV is spread only in certain body fluids from a person who has HIV. These fluids are blood, semen, pre-seminal fluids, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. In the United States, HIV is spread mainly by having sex or sharing injection drug equipment, such as needles, with someone who has HIV.
- HIV doesn't spread by hugging, shaking hands, sharing toilets, sharing dishes, or closed-mouth or “social” kissing with someone who is HIV-positive.
AIDS day
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1$^{st}$ May
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5$^{st}$ December
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31$^{st}$ June
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1$^{st}$ December
- AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is caused by the HIV virus. It breaks down the body immune system, leaving the patient vulnerable to a host of life-threatening opportunistic infections.
- World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.
- So, the correct answer is '1st December'.
Which of the below given statements are true?
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A person can contract AIDS due to unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person.
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A person can contract AIDS while getting permanent tattooing with an infected needle.
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A person cannot contract AIDS by donating blood to a HIV infected person
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All the statements are true.
AIDS is a disorder of cell-mediated immune system of the body. AIDS is transmitted only by a contact of infected cells containing the blood of a patient with the blood of a healthy person as in :
Read the following statements regarding the HIV virus.
A. It is a type of retrovirus which has an envelope enclosing the diploid RNA genome
B. It multiplies in helper $T$ cells and produces progeny virus.
C. In the macrophages of the host, RNA genome of the virus replicates to form viral DNA
D. Reverse transcriptase becomes inactive in the host cell.
How many of the above statements are correct?
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One
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Two
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Four
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Three
HIV is an enveloped retrovirus. Each virus particle contains two copies of an RNA genome. Hence HIV is a type of retrovirus which has an envelope enclosing the diploid RNA genome.
Which of the following is correct regarding AIDS causative HIV?
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HIV does not escape but attacks the acquired immune response
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HIV is enveloped virus containing one molecule of single stranded RNA and one molecule of reverse transcriptase
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HIV is envelope virus that contains two identical molecules of single stranded RNA and two molecules of reverse transcriptase
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HIV is unenveloped retrovirus
Which of the following is not the mode of spread of AIDS?
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Contaminated blood transfusion
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Vertical transmission
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Contaminated water and food
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Both (b) and (c)
Only one of the following four ways through which AIDS can spread
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Infected needles and syringes
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Through mosquito bites
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Looking after AIDS patient
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Shaking hands, coughing, sneezing, hugging
AIDS is confirmed by:-
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ELISA
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Wester
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Ames test
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North
HIV decreases natural immunity of the body by destroying
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Erythrocytes
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Antibodies
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T-Lymphocytes
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B-Lymphocytes