Pathology EMQ template.

Name:

Candidate number:    

Theme: Pathology of Infection                                  

 

OPTION LIST

 

A	Treponema pallidum	I	Human immunodeficiency virus
B	Cryptococcus neoformans	J	Brucella melitensis
C	Aspergillus fumigatus	K	Varicella zoster virus
D	Neisseria gonorrhoeae	L
E	Neisseria meningitidis	M
F	Herpes simplex virus	N
G	Plasmodium falciparum	O
H	Wuchereria bancrofti	P

 

 

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1. Patient presents in hospital with fevers, sweating, and muscular pain lasting for 2 days. He claims to have just come back from Saudi Arabia and had drunk a glass of camel’s milk whilst there.

 

 

2. Patient presents in hospital with a high fever and breathlessness. On examination, you find petechiae throughout his body. The patient’s condition deteriorates rapidly and he goes into septic shock.

 

 

3. Patient presents to a GP with a rash around the left side of his lips. He previously had chicken pox vaccination two months back, and he has been suffering eczema requiring long-term topical steroids.

 

 

4. Patient presents to a GP with a swollen right leg. He claims to have just returned from Brazil after trekking through the Amazon forest during his Summer vacation.

 

 

5. A 50 year old male presents with jaundice and abdominal swelling. He migrated from Gambia two years back. He claims to drink up to 10 pints of alcohol a day. He was found to have hepatocellular carcinoma.

 

 

 

ANSWERS

1. J

2. E

3. F

4. H

5. C