Probability of getting 1 Question from this chapter	40%
Ease of Revision	7.15 / 10

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.

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

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