Vaccination and Immunisation
Trending Questions
- Polio
- Pertussis
- Typhoid
- Diphtheria
A person is bitten by a dog. As an immediate treatment he is first administered rabies antibodies and later rabies vaccine. What do you think is the rationale behind this?
To provide immediate short term immunity and then a long lasting immunity to the same pathogen
To provide passive immunity and then long lasting immunity against the virus
To provide passive immunity and active immunity
All of the above
Which of the following diseases have been eradicated from India by means of vaccination?
Smallpox
Polio
Rabies
Measles
What is a vaccine?
A liquid containing dead pathogen
- A liquid containing a weakened pathogen
A liquid containing a attenuated pathogen
All of the above
Regarding the assertion and reason, select the right option:
Assertion [A]: Vaccination exploits the fact that the immune system’s response to a second exposure to pathogens is much faster and more vigorous than it is the first time around.
Reason [R]: Vaccines mimic live pathogens.
Both A and R are false
Both A and R are true and R explains A
Both A and R are true and R does not explain A
A is true and R is false
Which of the following can be used as vaccines?
Heat killed virus
Protein fragments from a virus
Virus with its DNA modified that makes it weak
All of the above
- Artificially acquired active immunity
- Artificially acquired passive immunity
- Natural acquired passive immunity
- Special natural immunity
(a) Tuberculosis (i) Harmless virus
(b) Whooping cough (ii) Inactivated toxin
(c) Diphtheria (iii) Killed bacteria
(d) Polio (iv) Harmless bacteria
- a - iv, b - iii, c - ii, d - i
a - i, b - ii, c - iii, d - iv
a - ii, b - i, c - iv, d - iii
a - ii, b - i, c - iii, d - iv
- Weakened germs
- Preformed antibodies
- Wide spectrum antibiotics
- Dead germs
- Activated pathogens
- Attenuated pathogens
- Harvested antibodies
- Gamma globulin