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Oral (Fungal) Mycotic Infections Multiple Choice Questions
- Prolonged use of antibiotics in children can result in:
A. Necrotising ulcerative gingivtis
B. Candidiasis
C. Actinomycosis
D. Apthous ulcers
- Oral thrush develops in infants at:
A. 6 days
B. 2-6 weeks
C. 10-12 weeks
D. 18 mouths
- A patient is having severe mycotic infection diabetes mellitus and cellulitis is suffering with:
A. Mycormycosis
B. Histoplasmosis
C. Candidiasis
D. None of the above
- Thrush:
A. Occurs only in elderly
B. Is caused by a gram -ve bacteria
C. Is seen clinically as a proliferative lesion
D. Responds to nystatin
- Denture sore mouth is cased by:
A. Actinomyces
B. candida albicans
C. Blastomyces
D. None of the above
- Candid infection is not seen in:
A. Median rhomboid glossitis
B. Geographic tongue
C. Oral thrush
D. Denture stomatitis
- Phycomycosis is also called:
A. Botryomycosis
B. Coccidiomycosis
C. phytomycosis
D. Mucormycosis
- ID reaction is associated with:
A. apthous ulcer
B. herpetic stomatitis
C. syphilis
D. candidiasis
- Darlings disease is:
A. Histoplasmosis
B. Phycomycosis
C. Actinomycosis
D. Bleomycosis
- Vascular involvement and thrombosis is seen in:
A. Coccidiomycosis
B. Aspergillosis
C. Mucormycosis
D. Histoplasmosis
- Non-septate hyphae with a tendency to branch at 90 degree angle is characteristic of:
A. Mucor
B. Aspergillosis
C. Cryptococcus neoformans
D. Coccidioides immitis
- Oral candidiasis is divided into primary and:
A. Secondary infections
B. Subsidiary infections
C. Subclinical infections
D. All of the above
- The yeast which shows thick gelatinous capsule and positive for mucicarmine is:
A. Cryptococcus
B. Histoplasmosis
C. Blastomycosis
D. Paracoccidiomycosis
- Which type of candidiasis is associated with leukoplakia is:
A. Acute pseudomembranous candidiasis
B. Acute atrohpic candidiasis
C. Chronic atrophic candidiasis
D. Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis
- Candidiasis associated with Dentures is:
A. Acute Pseudo Membranous
B. Acute Atrophic
C. Chronic Hyperplastic
D. Chonic atrophic
- Candida infection is involved in:
A. migrating geographic tongue
B. median rhomboidal glossitis
C. Prolonged tetracycline therapy
D. All of the above
- Drug used to treat oral thrush:
A. Clobetasol
B. Co-trimoxozle
C. Miconazole
D. Penicillin
- The microorganism most commonly cultured from a chronic bilateral ulcer at the corner of mouth:
A. Mucor
B. Candida
C. Treponema
D. Aspergillus
- Clinical diagnosis of candidiasis is confirmed by:
A. Characteristic odour
B. Demonstration of mycelia and spores in scrapping
C. Response to injection of vitamin B12
D. Demonstration of ray fungus in granules
- White raised painless areas when on peeling exhibit painful erythematous areas in case of:
A. Oral thrush
B. Pemphigus vulagaris
C. Leukoplakia
D. Erythroplakia
- A deficiency of which of the following cell can predispose to candidiasis?
A. Eosinophils
B. Macropages
C. Plasma cells
D. T Lymphocytes
- Thrush refers to?
A. Acute atrophic candidiasis
B. Acute pseudomembranous candidiasis
C. chronic atrophic candidiasis
D. chronic hyperplastic candidiasis
- White patch is seen on the buccal mucosa consisting of pseudomycelium and chalmydospores with desquamated epithelium adjacent to it, the patient is suffering from epithelium adjacent to it, the patient is suffering from:
A. histoplasmosis
B. cryptococcosis
C. candidiasis
D. coccidiomycosis
- All of the following statement about thrush are true EXCEPT:
A. It is caused by a gram-negative fungus
B. It is characterized by a plaque of proliferating epithelial and other cells
C. It is a complication of immunosuppression or systemic diseases
D. It can affect neonates in an epidemic fashion
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