List of top Microbiology Questions asked in INI CET

Pretomanid, a nitroimidazole used in the BPaL/BPaLM regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis, acts mainly by which mechanism?

What is the mode of infection (route of entry into the human host) of Necator americanus (New World hookworm)?

A post-splenectomy patient is at greatest risk of overwhelming sepsis from which organism?

Which class of antibiotics characteristically shows concentration-dependent killing?

In Bacillus anthracis, the poly-D-glutamic acid (poly-\(\gamma\)-D-glutamate) capsule is encoded by which plasmid?

Which of the following bacterial toxins acts by inhibiting elongation factor 2 (EF-2)?

A patient presents with septic arthritis. Culture grows a Gram-positive coccus that is catalase positive and cefoxitin sensitive. What is the drug of choice?

A poorly controlled diabetic patient presents with facial pain and a black eschar over the nasal/palatal region. Which organism is most likely responsible?

A middle-aged woman from Assam presents with chronic cough, fever, weight loss and cavitary lung lesions. Lung biopsy shows granulomatous inflammation with caseous necrosis and histiocyte-rich infiltrates. Which of the following should be strongly considered in the differential diagnosis?

Which of the following antifungal agents is NOT effective for the treatment of mucormycosis?

Which bacterium possesses two circular chromosomes?

Regarding Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms, which of the following statements are TRUE?

Which of the following bacteria is the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia?