Infectious Disease Exam Questions
for General Medicine Branch of English Parallel, Academic Year 2018/19
- a) Cytomegalovirus infections
b) Tick-borne encephalitis and other arboviral encephalitides - a) Measles and rubella
b) Legionnairesī disease and related illnesses - a) Acute bacterial meningitis in adult patients
b) Biological weapons and bioterrorism (smallpox, anthrax, lassa, ebola) - a) Diseases caused by food-borne enterotoxins ("food poisoning") and botulism
b) Tetracyclines, tigecycline and chloramphenicol - a) Aseptic meningitis and acute meningoencephalitis
b) Broad-spectrum penicillins and carbapenems - a) Oral manifestations of infectious diseases
b) Antimicrobial resistance and its impact on antimicrobial therapy - a) Tetanus including prevention and prophylaxis
b) Erythema multiforme, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema nodosum - a) Health care associated infections
b) Fifth disease and roseola infantum - a) Erysipelas, cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis
b) Infectious diseases in intensive care - a) Differential diagnosis of jaundice and liver lesion
b) Neonatal infections - a) Diphtheria and differential diagnosis of acute tonsillopharyngitis
b) Macrolides and azalides - a) Differential diagnosis of maculopapular rash
b) Mumps - a) Differential diagnosis of vesiculopustulous rash
b) Cholera and infections due to non-cholera Vibrio - a) Symptoms, signs and laboratory features of viral hepatitis
b) Clostridium difficile infection - a) Lyme disease
b) Interferon and steroids in therapy of infectious diseases - a) Meningism, lumbar puncture and CSF examination
b) Dengue fever, chikungunya and yellow fever - a) Epidemiology of viral hepatitis including prevention and prophylaxis
b) Atypical pneumonia - a) Differences in pneumonia symptoms according to specific etiologic agent
b) Principles of empiric antimicrobial therapy - a) Specific forms of infective endocarditis, and septic thrombophlebitis
b) Sulfonamides, trimethoprim and metronidazole - a) Diagnosis and therapy of urinary tract infections
b) Toxoplasmosis and toxocariasis - a) Differential diagnosis of febrile illness in tropical and subtropical areas
b) Scarlet fever - a) Invasive meningococcal disease
b) Management of health care in ID department including highly dangerous infections - a) Campylobacteriosis and infections due to Yersinia enterocolitica
b) Basic principles of the antiinfectious immunity - a) Diarrhoeal diseases caused by viruses
b) Opportunistic infections and neoplasms in persons with AIDS - a) Infections in i.v. drug users
b) Rifamycine, glycopeptides and linezolid - a) Selected intraabdominal infections (cholangoitis, peritonitis)
b) Collection and interpretation of blood culture - a) Natural history of HIV infection and medical management of HIV positive subjects
b) Pathogenesis, symptomatology and diagnosis of sepsis - a) Joint infectious diseases
b) Typhoid fever, related enteric fevers and rickettsioses - a) Chickenpox and shingles
b) Cryptococcosis, aspergillosis and pneumocystosis - a) Leptospirosis and infections due to hantavirus
b) Immunizations in high-risk persons and during outbreaks - a) Enterobiasis, ascariasis, taenioses and trichinellosis
b) Laboratory inflammatory markers - a) Infections due to herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2
b) Guillain-Barré syndrome - a) Infectious mononucleosis
b) Infectious disease prevention in travellers (including recommended vaccinations) - a) Anaerobic soft-tissue infections
b) Tularemia - a) Differential diagnosis of lymphadenopathy
b) Natural penicillins - a) Salmonellosis and shigellosis
b) Antiviral therapy of herpetic infections and influenza - a) Upper respiratory tract infections (excluding influenza)
b) Infections in patients with neutropenia, complement deficiency and asplenia - a) Enteric infections due to Escherichia coli
b) Cephalosporins - a) Infectious diseases in the pregnancy
b) Routine vaccination schedule and individually recommended vaccination - a) Palsies in infectious diseases
b) Lincosamides - a) Pertussis and related diseases
b) Systemic antifungal drugs - a) Fever of unknown origin - FUO (aetiology and work-up)
b) Antiviral therapy of viral hepatitis and HIV disease - a) Influenza and parainfluenza
b) Aminoglycosides - a) Acute epiglottitis and subglottic laryngitis
b) Leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and skin laesions in travelers - a) Community-acquired pneumonia - etiology and treatment
b) Toxic shock syndrome and Kawasaki syndrome - a) Congenital and perinatal infections (TORCH)
b) Quinolones and nitrofurantoin - a) Meningitis in newborns and infants
b) Travellerīs diarrhoea and prevention of food-borne infections in tropics and subtropics - a) Rabies including prevention and prophylaxis
b) Infections in patients with cellular and humoral immunodeficiency - a) Infective endocarditis
b) Fever and its treatment strategy - a) Invasive candidiasis
b) Malaria - a) Treatment of sepsis and septic shock
b) Chronic hepatitis B and C - a) Infections in diabetics, elderly and patients with immunosuppressive therapy
b) Antistaphylococcal drugs - a) An approach to the acute diarrhoeal disease of infants
b) Plague, anthrax, brucellosis and actinomycosis - a) Amoebiasis, giardiasis and cryptosporidiasis
b) Tonsillopharyngitis, paratonsillar abscess and neck deep fascial space infections - a) Liver abscess and parasitic cysts of the liver
b) Immune globulins in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases - a) Osteomyelitis and spondylodiscitis
b) ID specialistīs consultation and antibiotic counselling