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Community Health Nursing Question Papers with Answers- Vaccines and Communicable Disease Questions
On this page, we are discussing important questions related to vaccines and communicable diseases from the subjet community health nursing
List of Communicable Diseases
Small Pox – Variola virus
Chicken Pox – Human alpha herpes virus
Measles or Rubeola – RNA paramyxovirus
Rubella or German Measles – RNA Togavirus
Mumps – RNA Myxovirus
Influenza – Orthomyxovirus
Diphtheria – Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Pertussis or Whooping cough – Bordetella pertussis
Meningococcal Meningitis – Neisseria meningitis
SARS – Coronavirus
COVID 19-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or (SARS-CoV-2)
Tuberculosis – Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Poliomyelitis – Poliovirus
Hepatitis A – Enterovirus 72 or picornavirus
Hepatitis B – Hepadna virus
Hepatitis C – Hepacivirus
Hepatitis D – Deltavirus
Hepatitis E – Calicivirus
Typhoid fever – Salmonella typhi
Cholera – Vibrio cholerae
Staphylococcal food poisoning – Staphylococcus aureus
Ascariasis – Ascaris Lumbricoides
Ancylostomiasis or Hookworm infestation – A.Duodenale
Guinea worm infestation or Dracunculiasis – Dracunculus medinensis
Dengue fever – Arbovirus
Malaria – Plamodium vivax, falciparum, malaria,or ovale
Lymphatic filariasis – Wucheria bancrofti
Rabies – Lyssaviurs type 1 or Rhabdovirus
Yellow fever – Flavivirus fibricus
Japanese Encephalitis – Group B arbovirus or flavivirus
KFD – Arbovirus or Flavivirus
Chikungunya fever – Chikungunyaviurs or arbovirus A
Leptospirosis – Leptospira interrogans
Bubonic plague – Yersinia pestis
Pneumonic plague – Yersinia pestis
Septicemic plague – Yersinia pestis
Scrub typhus – Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
Q fever – Coxiella burnetti
Taeniasis or Tapeworm infestation – T.Solium, T. Saginata
Leishmaniasis or Kala-azar – L. Donovani
Trachoma – Chlamydia trachomatis
Tetanus – Clostridium tetani
Yaws – Treponema petenue
HIV/AIDS – HIV/HTLV -III/LAV
Swine flu – H1N1 type A influenza
Crimean Congo fever – Nairovirus
NIPHAH fever – Hendra/Henapi virus
Ebola virus – Ebola virus
Anthrax – Bacillus anthracis
Brucellosis – Bacillus melitensis
List of Non-communicable Diseases
Coronary Heart Disease
Hypertension
Diabetes Mellitus
Rheumatic fever
Cancers
Obesity
Blindness
Stroke etc
Accidents and Injuries are kept separately
Snake bites
Road Traffic accidents
Burns
Violence and Suicide
Poisoning
Drowning
Work-related injuries
Nursing Questions and Answers
1. Active and passive immunization is done simultaneously in all except?
a. Hepatitis B
b. Measles
c. Rabies
d. Tetanus
2. Chlorine exerts a disinfectant action in all except?
a. Bleaching powder
b. Cetrimide
c. Halozone tablets
d. Sodium hypochlorite
3. Mg 2+ ion is used as a stabilizer in which of the following vaccine?
a. OPV
b. DPT
c. BCG
d. Measles
4. Toxic shock syndrome is a unforeseen complication of which of the following vaccine?
a. Mumps
b. Measles
c. Salk
d. Tetanus
5. Savlon contains?
a. Chlorhexidine and chlorxylenol
b. Cetavlon and Chlorxylenol
c. Cetavlon and hibitane
d. Hibitane and chlorxylenol
6. Disinfection of water by routine chlorination can be classified as?
a. Sterilization
b. Concurrent disinfection
c. Terminal disinfection
d. Pre-current disinfection
7. Sputum can be disinfected by?
a. Boiling
b. Burning
c. Drying
d. Autoclaving
8. Disinfection of urine is which type of disinfection?
a. Pre-current
b. Concurrent
c. Pre-concurrent
d. Terminal
9. Oils and Powders are sterilized by?
a. Autoclaving
b. Microwaving
c. Hydroclaving
d. Hot air oven
10. Which of the following is used to test the efficiency of sterilization of an autoclave?
a. Bacillus subtilis
b. Clostridium Tetani
c. Bacillus stearothermophilus
d. Bacillus pumilus
11. Ministry of AYUSH was formed in 2014 for the development of education and research in the field of:
a. Ayurveda and Yoga only
b. Unani and Naturopathy only
c. Siddha and Homeopathy only
d. All of the above
12. Communicability of disease is assessed by:
a. Secondary attack rate
b. Generation time
c. Serial interval
d. Incubation period
13. Father of Evidence-Based Medicine is:
a. Da Vinci
b. Sackett
c. Hippocrates
d. Tolstoy
14. Hospital-acquired infection of surgical wound is mostly by:
a. Doctor
b. Airborne
c. Patient
d. Instruments
Nursing Exams Important Points to Remember
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