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(Single Best Answer) Question 11: A 15-month-old child presents with fever and cough since the last two days, the respiratory rate is 55 / min and there is no indrawing of the chest. According to the National Programme for Acute Respiratory Infections, the line of management should be ?
A) Immediate referral of the child to hospital for urgent admission
B) Referral of the child to hospital for admission, after administration of first dose of antibiotic
C) Administration of antibiotic at home along with treatment for fever, advising the mother to return for reassessment after two days
D) Administration of treatment for fever at home, advising the mother to return after two days for assessment of the need for an antibiotic
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(Single Best Answer) Question 12: Under the DOTS strategy of Revised National Tuberculosis Programme, the recommended line of management in Category I patients, if the sputum is positive after 2 months of Intensive Phase treatment with 4 drugs, is to ?
A) Start the continuation phase of treatment with INH and Rifampicin
B) Continue the Intensive Phase of treatment with 4 drugs for 1 more month only, regardless of sputum positivity after that
C) Continue the Intensive Phase of treatment with 4 drugs until the sputum becomes negative
D) Add one more drug, that is, to use 5 drugs until the sputum becomes negative
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(Single Best Answer) Question 13: The best indicator for the measurement of completed family size, that is the number of children a woman would have through her reproductive years is ?
A) General fertility rate
B) Total fertility rate
C) Gross reproduction rate
D) Net reproduction rate
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(Single Best Answer) Question 14: Mid-year population is not the denominator of which mortality rate ?
A) Crude death rate
B) Age specific death rate
C) Weekly death rate
D) Proportional mortality rate
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(Single Best Answer) Question 15: The Framingham Heart Study is an example of ?
A) Case control study
B) Cohort study
C) Randomised Controlled Trial
D) Cross sectional study
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(Single Best Answer) Question 16: Consider the following characteristics of biological agents:

1. Infectivity

2. Pathogenecity

3. Virulence

4. Communicability

Among the above characteristics, which are used to measure the ability of biological agents to induce clinically apparent illness ?
A) 1 and 2
B) 2 only
C) 3 only
D) 2 and 3
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(Single Best Answer) Question 17: Risk ratio is utilised to calculate the ?
A) Relative risk
B) Attributable risk
C) Population attributable risk
D) Odds ratio
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(Single Best Answer) Question 18: Consider the following criteria for a screening test ?

1. Disease should have a latent period

2. Condition (disease) should be rare

3. Disease should be amenable to treatment

Which of the above must be satisfied before including a screening test into any programme ?
A) 1 only
B) 1 and 2
C) 2 only
D) 1 and 3
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(Single Best Answer) Question 19: A new drug is to be evaluated for its therapeutic effect. The best study design will be ?
A) Cross sectional study
B) Case control design
C) Natural experiment
D) Randomized controlled trial
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(Single Best Answer) Question 20: Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:
List I
(Disease)
List II
(Common Vectors)
A. Japanese encephalitis1. Reduviid bug
B. Kala-azar2. Tsetse fly
C. Sleeping sickness3. Phlebotomus argentipes
D. Chagas disease4. Culicine mosquitoes

Code:
A) A1 B2 C3 D4
B) A1 B3 C2 D4
C) A4 B3 C2 D1
D) A4 B2 C3 D1
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