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
PUO ONPG PPNG TSST CJD TRIC
DEC             SSPE             BALT             MALT          PPLO            BCYE Agar    
TORCH HDN CRP RSSE CLED TCBS
TORCH HDN CRP RSSE CLED TCBS
What is?
- Vietnam Time bomb
 - NOMA
 - Break bone fever
 - Trench fever
 - Tularemia
 - Legionnaire’s disease
 - Larva migrans
 - X and V factor
 - Alpha prime haemolysis
 - Macfarland standard
 - Breakpoint of an antimicrobial agent
 - Heteroresistance, its mechanism and how it is detected
 - Metachromatic granules and their staining method
 - Principle of TSI test
 - Prozone phenomenon
 - VDRL, its other name
 - Second line anti-tuberculosis drugs
 - Pontiac fever
 - Kuru’s disease
 - Kyasanur forest disease
 - Passenger virus
 - Tzanck smear
 - Shocking dose
 - Kauffmann-White scheme
 - Kupffer cells
 - Ghon focus
 - Reiter syndrome
 - Negri bodies
 - Fuller method
 - Carrion’s disease
 - Slapped cheek disease
 - Kissing disease
 - Vincent’s angina
 - Myasthenia gravis
 
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