1. Which one of the following antiseptics promotes wound healing?

2. Concentration of sulphonamides in C.S.F. is about 40 to 80% of that in blood because

3. Pyrimethamine + sulfadoxine should be used as a

4. A businessman intends to travel abroad in a geographical region where several diseases are endemic. He would not be able to be vaccinated against

5. Chloroquine acts as

6. Which of the following antimalarial drugs is more active against pre-and exoerythrocytic stages of the malarial parasite than against the erythrocytic stage ?

7. What is true of short course DOTS(WHO) stategy for treatment of tuberculosis ?

8. It is now recommended that trovafloxacin be reserved for treatment of life-threatening infections because

9. Which of the following drugs or drug groups is not useful in the prevention of nausea and vomiting included by cancer chemotherapy ?

10. Which of the following patients complaining of vaginal yeast infection symptoms should be referred to a physician?

11. The less common causative organism in urinary tract infection is

12. Which one of the following compounds enhances immune function in vitro and in clinical trials decreases the symptoms of the common cold?

13. Mycobat tuberculosis infection in a HI V infected patient is treated with

14. This compound reduces the need for platelet transfusions in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy

15. Methenamine salts are used as urinary antiseptics. The reason why they lack systemic antibacterial action is that they are

16. A 31-year-old man has gonorrhea. He has no drug allergies, but he recalls that a few years ago while in Africa he had acute hemolysis following use of an antimalarial drug. The physician is concerned that the patient has an accompanying urethritis due to C trachomatis, though no cultures or enzyme tests have been performed. Which of the following drugs is most likely to be effective against gonococci and to eradicate C trachomatis in this patient?

17. Which of the following diarrhoeas is consistently benefited by antimicrobial therapy

18. A young woman employed as a dental laboratory technician complains of conjunctivitis, skin irritation, and hair loss. On examination, she has perforation of the nasal septum and a 'milk and roses' complexion. These signs and symptoms are most likely to be due to

19. Plasmodial resistance to chloroquine is due to

20. A child has been brought with intestinal obstruction due to clumping of round worms. Which of the following anthelmintics administered by intragastic tube can relax the ascarids and relieve the obstruction

21. Recrudescence of malaria refers to recurrence of malarial fever due to

22. In addition to having antiamoebic activity, tinidazole inhibits

23. An important therapeutic or toxic effect of loop diuretics is

24. For the treatment of Hymenolepis nana infestation, praziquantel has the following advantage(s) over niclosamide

25. Which one of the following is least likely to be a mechanism of cancer cell resistance to antineoplastic drugs?