Infectious Disease Exam Questions

Group 1

1. Basic principles of anti-infective immunity
2. Management of infectious disease department and principles of isolation
3. High consequence infectious diseases
4. Infectious disease counselling and antibiotic consultation
5. Biomarkers of acute inflammation
6. Collection and evaluation of blood cultures
7. Lumbar puncture and examination of cerebrospinal fluid
8. Symptomatic therapy of infectious diseases
9. Principles of empiric antibiotic treatment
10. Impact of microbial resistance on antibiotic choice
11. Natural and anti-staphylococcal penicillins
12. Aminopenicillins and anti-pseudomonal penicillins
13. Cephalosporins
14. Carbapenems
15. Macrolides and azalides
16. Lincosamides and rifampicin
17. Aminoglycosides and chloramphenicol
18. Fluoroquinolones
19. Vancomycin, linezolid, and fidaxomicin
20. Tetracyclines and metronidazole
21. Nitrofurantoin and co-trimoxazole
22. Antiviral therapy of herpes infections and influenza
23. Antiviral therapy of viral hepatitis and HIV
24. Systemic antifungals
25. Types of vaccines, reactions and side effects after vaccination
26. Mandatory routine vaccination of children
27. Optional vaccination of children
28. Vaccination of adults
29. Vaccinations of professionals and during outbreaks
30. Prevention of infectious diseases in travellers (including vaccination)
31. Post-exposure prophylaxis (rabies, tetanus, varicella)

Group 2

1. Differential diagnosis of acute tonsillopharyngitis
2. Streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis and scarlet fever
3. Infectious mononucleosis
4. Differential diagnosis of infectious etiology of cough
5. Influenza and acute upper respiratory tract diseases
6. Covid-19 and other coronavirus infections
7. Differential diagnosis of pneumonia
8. Pneumonia caused by typical agents
9. Atypical pneumonia
10. Pneumonia in immunocompromised patients
11. Differential diagnosis of diarrhea
12. Alimentary intoxication
13. Diarrheal diseases of viral origin
14. Diarrheal diseases of bacterial origin
15. Postantibiotic colitis
16. Autochtonous intestinal parasitic infections
17. Differential diagnosis of maculopapular rash
18. Differential diagnosis of vesiculopustulous rash
19. Manifestations of herpes simplex virus infection
20. Chickenpox and shingles
21. Measles and rubella
22. Fifth and sixth disease, hand-foot-mouth syndrome
23. Erysipelas and cellulitis
24. Differential diagnosis of febrile illness
25. Differential diagnosis of meningeal syndrome
26. Serous meningoencephalitis
27. Tick-borne meningoencephalitis
28. Lyme disease
29. Purulent meningitis
30. Invasive pneumococcal disease

31. Invasive meningococcal disease
32. Acute polyradiculoneuritis and facial palsy
33. Differential diagnosis of jaundice
34. Differential diagnosis of viral hepatitis
35. Acute viral hepatitis
36. Chronic hepatitis
37. Liver abscess and liver echinococcosis
38. Natural course of HIV infection and follow-up of HIV-positive patients
39. Opportunistic infections and tumors in patients with AIDS
40. Transplacental infections
41. Pediatric infectious diseases in adulthood
42. Herpetic gingivostomatitis and mumps
43. Differential diagnosis of lymphadenopathy
44. Zoonoses causing lymphadenopathy
45. Tick-borne infections
46. Diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of urinary tract infections
47. Infections in patients with impaired cellular and antibody immunity
48. Febrile neutropenia and infection in patients after splenectomy
49. Healthcare-associated infections
50. Infectious diseases in intensive care
51. Infectious diseases of diabetics, elderly patients and pregnant women
52. Sepsis and septic shock
53. Infective endocarditis
54. Fever of unknown origin
55. Traveller's diarrhea and imported intestinal parasitoses
56. Skin lesions in travelers
57. Differential diagnosis of febrile conditions in tropics and subtropics
58. Malaria
59. Dengue fever
60. Typhoid fever