Name: Yong Chee

Theme: Zoonoses

 

OPTION LIST

 

A

Bartenolla henselae

I

Trypanosoma cruzi

B

Borrelia burgdorferi

J

Yersinia pestis

C

Brucella abortus

K

 

D

Camplylobacter jejuni

L

 

E

Cryptosporidium parvum

M

 

F

Francisella tularensis

N

 

G

Rickettsia prowazekii

O

 

H

Spirillum minus

P

 

 

 

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

 

1.  Bubonic plague

 

2. A student who presented with two day history of bloody diarrhoea, vomiting, fever, headache and myalgia. He has just returned from camping in the country side near a farm where he had fresh cow’s milk for breakfast everyday.

 

3. A 2 year old boy living in the slums who has a one day history of profuse watery diarrhoea, fever and abdominal cramps.  His family’s main source of water is the river near their squatters.

 

4. A man was bitten by a rat in Asia. Ten days later he complains of fever, malaise, headache and myalgia.  

 

5.  Cat-Scratch disease

 

 

ANSWERS

1. J

2. D

3. E

4. H

5. A