SPM
Zoonotic infections
Exam Yield
Probability of getting 1 Question from this chapter | 103% |
You are likely to get 1 question from this Chapter.
The good thing is, this chapter overlaps with Microbiology, and covering this one chapter can assure you upto 8 marks.
Question Pattern
This topic is easy to score from, if you remember random facts.
(That’s a bulk of Medicine practice anyway )
The questions focus on natural history of various zoonoses.
Remember to brush up Causative agent, vectors, incubation period, mode of transmission for
- Rickettsia
- Rabies
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Yellow Fever
- Kala-Azar
- Kyasanur Forest disease
- Nipah Virus
Rabies Vaccination is another favorite topic, that’s easy score from.
Recent Questions
Questions on this chapter from recent NEET and AIIMS examinations have been about
- Incubation Period of yellow fever
- Aedes Aegypti index
- Yellow fever Vaccination -Validity
- Reference Centres for yellow fever in India
- Japanese Encephalitis – transmission, lifecycle
- JE- Amplifiers of virus
- Classification of Rickettsial diseases
- Scrub Typhus – transmission
- Kala Azar endemic areas
- Leishmania – Basics
- Method of choice for diagnosis of Kala-azar
- Nipah virus – transmission
- Aedes Aegypti index
Suggested Revision
Get the following things hammered into your brain.
- Classification of Zoonoses
- Classification of Rickettsial diseases
- Rabies virus -Taxonomy, Vaccination
- Classification & Treatment of Bite Wounds
- Flea Indices
- Causative agent, vectors, incubation period, mode of transmission of the various zoonoses