(A) Myonecrosis
(B) Food poisoning
(C) Antibiotic-induced colitis
(D) Gas gangrene
Tag: Basic Microbiology Mcqs Questions
What causes the major symptoms of tetanus?
(A) Production of tetanospasmin
(B) Multiplication of organisms at the site of infection
(C) Production of botulin toxin
(D) Superinfection due to antibiotic therapy
Tuberculosis is spread by:
(A) Contaminated fomites
(B) Food
(C) Respiratory droplets
(D) Vectors
What type of vaccine is the anthrax vaccine?
(A) Attenuated bacteria
(B) Toxoid
(C) Killed whole bacterial cells
(D) Recombinant
Substitutions that prematurely stops synthesis of protein, by generating stop codon, called as:
(A) Missense mutation
(B) Nonsense mutation
(C) Frameshift mutation
(D) Alternation
Which of the following is a purine?
(A) Adenine
(B) Thymine
(C) Uracil
(D) Cytosin
Fusion of nuclei in fungi is:
(A) Karyogamy
(B) Progamy
(C) Microgamy
(D) Pregamy
Where are target cells of diphtherotoxin located?
(A) The skin
(B) The skeletal muscles
(C) The lungs
(D) The heart and nervous system