UNIVERSITY OF BUEA

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

Department: Biochemistry and Microbiology Course instructors: Ngemenva & Njie

Month : September Course code & Number: MLT 202

Year : 2009 Course title: Human Pathology

Date: 25

th

September, 2009 Time: 11:30-14:30

Time allowed: 03 hours Credi value: 06

c) Give two characteristics of neoplasia, (1mk)

d) Sketch and label a liver cell in which fatty change has occurred (2mks)

e) Give one example Of cell injury due to damage to DNA (1 mk)

f) What is necrosis? (1 mk)

2. Study the table below, then copy only the numbers (i) to (vi) on the table and write the correct answer against it.

(DO NOT copy the table) (6mks)

Viral disease Characteristic feature of viral disease

(i) Produces lethal encepbalitis, death often follows convulsion

(II) Viral meningitis

NOT copy the passage). Some answers may require concise and explicit sentences or phrases. (10 mks)

“Two ways by which bacteria can be spread by direct contact are (a) and (b); and one example of a disease or

bacterium spread by the latter ways are (c) and (d) respectively. Two mechanisms of tissue damage in bacterial

pathogenesis are (e) and (f). Two acute signs or symptoms of bacterial infection are (g) and (h). Two specific

methods of preventing bacterial infections are outlined as follows: (i) and (j)”.

4. Give concise answers to the following questions:

State two ways of preventing and controlling malaria (2mks)

State one method of transmission of the following parasitic diseases:

(i) Amoebiasis (ii) Onchocerciasis (ii:) schistomaniasis (3mks).