SOME EXAM QUESTIONS
1) Give an account on the following:
1- Diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis.
2- Medical importance of Sand flies.
3- Autoinfection
4- Diagnosis of lymphatic filariasis
5- Cestode stages that may be found in human stools.
6- Diagnosis of acute amoebic dysentery.
2) Give a short account on:
a) False fascioliasis.
b) Calabar swelling.
3) Mention the clinical manifestations and management of scabies.
4) Define and give examples for each of the following:
a) True relapse in malaria
b) Visceral larva migrans.
5) Compare between:
a) Morphological character of Naegleria and that of Acanthamoeba.
b) Cyclopropagative cyclodevelopmental transmission of parasitic diseases.
6) Write short notes on:
a) Medical importance of fleas.
b) Scabies.
7) In a table form mention helminthic parasites that may be found in the liver and the infective stages of each.
8) Compare by drawing between TWO protozoan ONE causing diarrhea and the other causing leucorrhea.
9) Differentiate by illustrating diagrams between:
a- Two cestodes larvae that can be found in human tissues.
b- Polymorphic and monomorphic trypanosomes in blood films.
10) Enumerate food-born protozoan infections in man. Illustrate diagrammatically the infective stages of each.
11) Give an account on the different types of transmission of pathogens by arthropods, giving examples.
12) Give an account on:
a- Biomphalaria alexandrina as regards the medical importance, stages inside and chemical methods of control.
b- Exflagellation.
c- Sudan blindness.
d- Jigger's disease.
13) Give an account on the role of pigs in transmission of helminthic diseases to man.
14) Differentiate by labeled diagrams between the following:
a- Diagnostic stages of Wuchereria bancrofti and Loa loa
b- Infective stages of Strongyloides stercoralis and Ancylostoma duodenale
c- Larvae of myiasis- producing flies.
d- Gametocytes of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum.
15) Give an account on medical importance of Culex pipiens. Discuss how to control its aquatic stages.
16) Give an account on:
a- Molluscicides.
b- Infective stages of intestinal protozoa found in human stool.
17) In a table form mention reservoir hosts and intermediate hosts, and differentiate between infective stages and diagnostic stages of flat-worms transmitted through consumption of infected fish.
18) Draw a labeled diagram differentiating between the following:
a- Pathogenic protozoan cysts found in stool.
b- Erythrocytic stages Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum.
19) Write on the following:
a- Direct methods used for diagnosis intestinal schistosomiasis.
b- Medical importance of bugs
c- Sabin-Feldman dye test.
d- Diagnosis of enterobiasis.
20) Differentiate between diagnostic stages of Taenia saginata and Taenia solium. Illustrate your answer with diagrams.
21) Write short notes on:
a- Cercarial dermatitis
b- False fascioliasis
22) Differentiate between infective stages of Taenia saginata and Taenia solium. Illustrate your answer with diagrams.
23) Write short notes on:
a- Pharyngeal fascioliasis.
b- Rectal snip.
24) Mention how you can diagnose a case of amoebic dysentery. Draw a labeled diagram for the causative parasite.
25) Differentiate morphologically between Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis trophozoites.
26) Differentiate between larval stages of Taenia species.
27) Give an account on the role of fleas in transmission of helminthic infections to man.
28) Give an account on the morphological features of trematode cercariae.
29) Draw a labeled diagram for the infective stages of large intestine nematodes.
30) Give a short account on specific myiasis.
31) Morphological features of erythrocytic schizonts of Plasmodium species.
32) Comment on:
a- Sarcoptes scabiei
b- Metallic flies
33) Write on:
a- Treatment of trichomoniasis
b- Infective stages of cestodes.
34) Differentiate between the following with aid of labeled diagrams:
a- Infective stages of Naegleria and Acanthamoeba spp.
b- Infective stages of Ascaris lumbricoides and Strongyloides stercoralis
c- Xenopsylla and Pulex spp.
35) Describe the life cycle of the following parasites in their intermediate hosts:
a- Plasmodium vivax
b- Schistosoma spp.
36) Describe a direct method for diagnosis of the following parasites- Mention and draw the stages found.
a- Wuchereria bancrofti
b- Trichomonas vaginalis
c- Enterobius vermicularis
d- Taenia saginata
e- Hymenolepis nana
37) Differentiate between the life cycles of two parasites transmitted to man, one through eating meat and another through eating fish in Egypt.
38) Some parasitic infections occur through the skin. Name two helminthic and two protozoal examples. For each parasite mention infective stage, mode of infection, clinical picture and give one drug for treatment.
39) Differentiate between the following:
a- Microscopic examination of stools in amoebic and bacillary dysentery.
b- Types of lice.
c- Types of myiasis.
40) Give an account on:
a- Infective stages and modes of human infection with Toxoplasma gondii
b- Types of biological transmission of diseases by arthropods. Give an example for each.