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The questions focus on

• Knowing the causative organisms for various diseases
• Characteristic Clinical features & Lab findings
• Incubation period & DOC

for the following organisms

• E Coli
• Salmonella
• Vibrio
• Hemophilus
• Brucella
• Pertusis

Make sure to read the causative organisms & vectors for Arthropod- borne diseases

Questions on this chapter from recent NEET and AIIMS examinations have been about

• Scombroid fish poisoning – Cause
• Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)-induced diarrhea
• Mechanism of action of various bacterial toxins
• Legionnaires’ disease – Diagnosis
• Chemoprophylaxis in contacts of a patient with pneumonic plague
• Infective dose of Salmonella typhi
• Brucella species are oxidase positive except
• Burkholderia cepacia is resistant to
• Mechanism of action of various bacterial toxins
• Yersinosis
• Vibrio parahemolyticus – overview
• Organisms causing epiglottitis
• Diseases with usual incubation period
• Culture media used to differentiate E. coli O157:H7 from other E. coli
• Organisms produce urease
• Specific Culture Media for various organisms
• Features of amoebic and bacillary dysentery
• MC cause of traveler’s diarrhea
• Chronic airway infection in cystic fibrosis – organism
• Brazilian purpuric fever – organism
• Widal test
• Characteristic motility of microorganisms
• Melioidosis – Organism
• Arthropod- borne diseases – Overview
• Genital Ulcers – Characteristics of each type
• Lactose fermenter
• Kanagawa phenomenon is shown by
• HACEK group – organisms
• Differentiation between classical Cholera and El tor Vibrios
• Bipolar staining or safety pin appearance is shown by
• Clue cells
• Pertusis – Incubation period
• Satellitism

Revise the following areas

• Hemophilus – Microbiological features, clinical syndromes
• Vibrio Cholrea – Types, Investigations and Microbiological features, Pathogenesis
• Pseudomonas – Microbiological features
• Rat bite fever – Organism
• Plague – Types and common features
• Salmonella typhi – Overview
• Transport media for Vibrio cholerae
• Brucella – Unique features
• H Pylori – Investigations
• Non motile salmonellae
• Diene’s phenomenon
• E.coli – Microbiological features
• Pertusis – Salient features
• Cat scratch disease – Overview
• Bacteria and Oxygen Requirement
• Non-typhoidal Salmonellosis – Overview
• DOC for typhoid carrier
• Typhoral schedule
• E. Coli – Types, differentiation and the diseases they cause
• Pertusis Vaccine
• Cholera red reaction
• Bacillary angiomatosis – Overview
• Burkholderia mallei – Overview