107 - AIIMS community medicine mcqs or social and preventive medicine mcqs ( spm or psm ) from all previous years AIIMS papers with answers - part 1

1q: all are seen in epidemic dropsy except ?

a. convulsions
b. glaucoma
c. diarrhea
d. heart failure

 answer  a. convulsions is not a feature of epidemic dropsy . epidemic dropsy is due to contamination of mustard oil with argemone Mexicanawhose active component is sanguinarine . sanguinarine interferes with oxidation of pyruvic acid which  accumulates in the blood . symptoms of epidemic dropsy are swelling of legs,diarrhea ,cardiac failure and glaucoma . it may occur at all ages except breast fed infants

2q: what are the tests to detect argemone Mexicana in mustard oil ?

 answer  nitric acid test and paper chromatography test .

3q: according to WHO , the prevalence of leprosy is a major public health problem when the incidence is more than ?

 answer 0.01 % .

4q: in the UIP blindness can be prevented by the administration of ?

a. measles vaccine
b. rubella vaccine
c. BCG vaccine
d. Diphtheria vaccine

 answer  a . measles vaccine.

5q: according to the survey of ICMR in 1991 , the prevalence of open cases of tuberculosis is

 answer 0.4 % .