History and Scope of Microbiology — MCQs

Microorganism used as a weapon in biological terrorism is:

Germ theory of disease was proposed by

Assertion: VZV vaccine is live attenuated. Reason: It cannot be given to immunocompromised patients.

Who is credited with introducing the practice of hand hygiene in medical settings?

An organism produces cutaneous disease (malignant pustule or eschar) at the site of inoculation in handlers of animal skins. Most likely organism is:

What is the drug that can be used for rheumatic fever prophylaxis in a patient with a history of allergy to Penicillin?

Typhoid Mary is known in history to cause more than 1300 cases in her lifetime. This is an example of which of the following epidemic?

Germ theory of disease causation is given by:

In microbiology, exaltation refers to -

Who is known as the father of microbiology?