Vaccine and Vaccination Practice Questions

Question 1

What are the possible mild reactions after receiving the influenza vaccine?

Accepted Answer

All of the options

Answer

Itching

Answer

Local swelling

Answer

Fever

Question 2

Due to a measles outbreak in a community, a medical officer decided to immunize a child aged seven months with measles vaccine. When should the next measles vaccine be administered?

Accepted Answer

When the child completes nine months of age

Answer

Not required

Answer

When the child completes fifteen months of age

Answer

After four weeks

Question 3

Which of the following vaccines is classified as a killed vaccine?

Accepted Answer

Meningococcal vaccine

Answer

Varicella

Answer

BCG

Answer

OPV

Question 4

Which one of the following is an absolute contraindication for administration of killed vaccine?

Accepted Answer

Severe reaction to a previous dose

Answer

Hodgkin's disease

Answer

Pregnancy

Answer

Immunodeficiency

Question 5

All are live vaccines except

Accepted Answer

Tetanus

Answer

BCG

Answer

OPV

Answer

Measles

Question 6

An event that is caused by an error in vaccine preparation, handling, or administration is called as:

Accepted Answer

Programme error

Answer

Injection reaction

Answer

Coincidental event

Answer

Vaccine reaction

Question 7

Consider the following statements:

1. The duration of immunity is longer when live vaccine is administered as compared to the administration of killed vaccine.

2. In the case of killed vaccine, single dose is sufficient whereas multiple doses are always required in the case of live vaccines. Which of these statements is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

1 only

Answer

2 only

Answer

Both 1 and 2

Answer

Neither 1 nor 2

Question 8

Which among the following is correct about yellow fever vaccination requirement for international travellers ?

1. Term of validity of the certificate is changed from 10 years to the duration of the life of the vaccinated person.
2. Lifetime validity of the certificate applies automatically to all existing and new certificates.
3. Validity of the certificate begins 4 days after vaccination.
4. In India, booster dose of yellow fever vaccine is required for those whose certificate is prior to the year 2016.

Select the correct answer using the code given below :

Accepted Answer

1 and 2

Answer

2 and 4

Answer

2 and 3

Answer

1 and 3

Question 9

An 80-year-old woman, a retirement home resident, has multiple bouts of pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. In an attempt to prevent such infections, polyvalent vaccines directed at multiple serotypes of the organism have been administered but have not elicited long-acting immunity. Which of the following is the probable explanation for this phenomenon?

Accepted Answer

Memory T lymphocytes respond poorly to polysaccharide antigens.

Answer

The bacterial capsule binds C3b, facilitating activation of the alternative complement pathway, inducing complement-mediated lysis, and preventing immunization.

Answer

The capsular polysaccharides of S. pneumoniae have limited hapten potential.

Answer

S. pneumoniae evades host immune response by forming capsular coatings composed of host proteins and recognized as "self" antigens.

Question 10

Which virus is NOT associated with human cancer?

Accepted Answer

Measles virus

Answer

HPV

Answer

HHV-8

Answer

EBV

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