List of top Healthcare and Hospital Management Questions on Epidemiology

Who is the father of epidemiology?
The infection that develops in admitted patients after more than 48 hours of hospitalization is termed as ____________ infection.
Arrange the definition of epidemiology given by different authors in a chronological order starting from oldest to the latest definition.
A. That branch of medical science which treats epidemics (Parkin).
B. The study of disease, any disease, as a mass phenomenon (Greenwood).
C. The science of the mass phenomenon of infectious diseases (Frost).
D. The study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in man (MacMahon).

Match List-I with List-II 

List-I (Categories of Zoonoses)List-II (Type of life cycle of the infecting organism)
(A) Direct zoonoses(I) Transmitted from an infected vertebrate host to a susceptible vertebrate host
(B) Meta-zoonoses(II) Requires more than one vertebrate host species, but no invertebrate host, in order to complete the developmental cycle of the agent
(C) Cyclo-zoonoses(III) Transmitted biologically by invertebrate vectors
(D) Sapro-zoonoses(IV) Have both a vertebrate host and a non-animal developmental site or reservoir