Q1. How can the most accurate diagnosis of meningococcal septicemia be made? Culture of blood or cerebrospinal fluid?
Q2. Could food varieties other than meat spread Escherichia coli 0157?
Q3. A patient with brucellosis has an agglutination test that still shows a 1/320 titre despite six weeks of treatment with 600 mg of rifampicin and 200 mg of doxycycline. I have a question about this patient. If the patient resumes experiencing the same symptoms after stopping treatment, how should treatment proceed? To demonstrate relapse, what is the most effective laboratory test?
Q4. Can steroids be used to treat dengue haemorrhagic fever, particularly to prevent further reductions in platelet count?
Q5. Could you please explain how thrombocytopenia is brought on by dengue and malaria?
Q6. What is the recommended treatment for a dengue fever patient?
Q7. By biting a tick, what diseases can be contracted?
Q8. Why haven't as many people been affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as expected?
Q9. Please explain the link between chronic carriers and recurrent typhoid fever and the recommended treatment for both.
Q10. Which test for diagnosing typhoid is the most reliable?