What to Expect in Microbiology Viva?

October 17, 20110 comments

 
Following is the list of a few not-to-be missed essential questions you can expect in a Microbiology viva. These set of questions would be useful to prepare answers for or revise before appearing for an oral exam. 

Special Diagnosic Tests:

  • Schick test
  • Dick test
  • Weil-Felix test
  • Paul-Bunnel test
  • Tuberculin test
  • Sereney’s test
  • Phenol coefficient test
  • 555 test
  • CAMP test
  • String test
  • Hair penetration test
  • Anton test
  • Chick Martin test
  • Rose Waaler test
  • Rideal Walker test
  • Resazurin test
  • Elek’s test
  • Diazo test
  • Heaf’s test

Phenomena/Reactions:
  • Kanagawa Phenomenon
  • Reynolds-Braude Phenomenon
  • Shultz- Dale phenomenon
  • Koch’s phenomenon
  • Quellung reaction
  • Strauss reaction
  • Nagler’s reaction
  • Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
  • Pfeiffer’s reaction
  • Neil-Mooser reaction
  • M’Fadyean reaction
  
Expand:
HACEK          MUG             HUS               PAS            LGV             GABA
PUO             ONPG            PPNG             TSST          CJD              TRIC
DEC             SSPE             BALT             MALT          PPLO            BCYE Agar   
TORCH          HDN              CRP              RSSE          CLED            TCBS
  
What is?

  1. Vietnam Time bomb
  2. NOMA
  3. Break bone fever
  4. Trench fever
  5. Tularemia
  6. Legionnaire’s disease
  7. Larva migrans
  8. X and V factor
  9. Alpha prime haemolysis
  10. Macfarland standard
  11. Breakpoint of an antimicrobial agent
  12. Heteroresistance, its mechanism and how it is detected
  13. Metachromatic granules and their staining method
  14. Principle of TSI test
  15. Prozone phenomenon
  16. VDRL, its other name
  17. Second line anti-tuberculosis drugs
  18. Pontiac fever
  19. Kuru’s disease
  20. Kyasanur forest disease
  21. Passenger virus
  22. Tzanck smear
  23. Shocking dose
  24. Kauffmann-White scheme
  25. Kupffer cells
  26. Ghon focus
  27. Reiter syndrome
  28. Negri bodies
  29. Fuller method
  30. Carrion’s disease
  31. Slapped cheek disease
  32. Kissing disease
  33. Vincent’s angina
  34. Myasthenia gravis
Volunteers interested in preparing answers for the questions listed above & sharing with iYi readers, welcome!


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