PLE Category: Microbiology

PLE-3478

A 25-year-old male mountain climber, who spent his vacation in Palawan for 2 weeks, came back with high fever, chills, and sweating. The presumptive diagnosis is malaria. If numerous ring forms and gametocytes were appreciated without other stages on thick smear, one would think of this Plasmodium species.

PLE-3479

A 3-year-old girl is brought in by her mother because of perianal pruritus. What is the most likely diagnostic finding to be seen on microscopic examination?

PLE-3475

In the absence of treatment, how long would a patient with HIV typically have a clinical latency period before progressing to AIDS?

PLE-3476

Which ova of this schistosome have a terminal spine?

PLE-3472

How can Salmonella typhi be differentiated from Shigella spp.?

PLE-3473

Which of the following does not belong to the genera of dermatophytes?

PLE-3474

Which of the following statements is false regarding Neisseria?

PLE-3470

The following completely inactivate HIV, except:

PLE-3471

What is the typical Gram reaction and morphology of Neisseria?