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Viruses with single stranded DNA

Parvoviruses

Which is not correct about parvoviruses

They cannot be transmissible to the fetus

All of the following belong to the Herpesvirdae expect

Variola virus

Smallpox is a disease in which

Fever, prostation, rash, and possible toxemia and shock occur

All of the following pertain to monkeypox except

The virus has shown a trend in becoming less virulent with fewer out breaks in human

All of the following pertain to HSV-1 except

It is latent in the lumbosacral spinal nerve ganglia

An occasional serious complication of HSV-1

Encephalitis

Which of the following antiviral is not used for treatment of HSV-1 and HSV-2

Interfero

Herpes whitlow is a deep set HSV infection of the

Finger

If a person who has never been infected the varicella-zoster virus comes in contact with a person who has shingles, they will come down with

Chickenpox

Epstein-Barr virus has the following characteristics except

It infects the respiratory epithelium

Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis include

Sore throat, fever, cervical lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly

Cytomegalovirus mononucleosis typically has fever and lymphocytosis, but in severely immunocompromised patients symptoms include

Severe diarrhea, pneumonitis, hepatitis, and retinitis

The patients at greatest risk for severe cytomegalovirus infection include all the following except

Individuals with hypertension

Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) has the following characteristics except

It causes Kaposi's sarcoma

Inflammation of the liver with necrosis of the hepatocytes and swelling due to mononuclear response is a disease called

Hepatitis

The hepadnaviruses

Show tropism for the liver

Hepatitis B infection

Increases risk for hepatocellular cancer

Which is incorrect about warts

Are usually cancerous

All of the following pertain to genital warts except

Are not common in the U.S.A.

Which of the following viruses is an RNA virus that causes many cases of infusion hepatitis so I know

Adenovirus

When bilirubin accumulates in the blood and tissues it causes

Jaundice

All of the following are similarities between HAV, HBV, and HCV except

They are all RNA viruses

Which virus may play a role in multiple sclerosis

Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6)

Which infection are you likely looking at if you view a direct smear of a cervical scraping and see enlarged (multinucleated giant) cells and intranuclear inclusions

HSV-2

Which is not correct about genital warts

The etiological agent is the human polyoma virus JC

Which is incorrect about smallpox

Transmision is ingesting contaminated water or food

Which is incorrect about viral diseases

Most DNA viruses multiply in and are released from the cytoplasm

Characteristics of the Orthomyxoviruses include all of the following except

Include Paramyxoviruses

The enzyme associated with the influenza virus that hydrolyzes the protective mucous of the respiratory tract

Neuraminidase

Inhalation of respiratory secretions is involved in the transmission of the following except

Dengue fever

Symptoms of influenza

Fever, myalgia, sore throat, cough, and nasal discharge

Influenza vaccines include all of the following except

Provides lifelong immunity

Which is not a disease caused by Arenaviruses?

Hantaviruses

Parainfuenza virus

Causes croup, bronchitis, and bronchopneumonia

Orchitis and epididymitis is seen in young adult males as a complication of

Mumps

Oral lesions called Koplik's spots are seen in patients with

Measles ( rubeola)

This infection is marked by labored noisy breathing and horse cough

Croup

The febrile disease with a rash has a pathogen that can cross the placenta and cause serious fetal damage

Rubella

Which is incorrect about the MMR immunization

Contains toxoids

All the following pertain to measles (rubeola) except

Transmitted by direct contact with the rash

Which is incorrect about rabies

Average incubation in human is one week

Coronaviruses cause

Common cold and SARS

Sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Can cause high fever, pneumonia, and respiratory distress

Rubella is

Associated with congenital transmission causing miscarriage, deafness, and cardiac and mental defects

All arboviruses involve

Anthropod vectors

Encephalitis caused by arboviruses

Coma, convulsions, and paralysis in severe cases

Which of the following is a hemorrhagic fever

Yellow fever

Are frequent cancer that is seen in AIDS patient is

Kaposi's sarcoma

West Nile has the following characteristics except

Causes hemorrhagic fever

Retroviruses have the following characteristics except

DNA genome

All of the following pertain to patients with AIDS except

Highest number of cases worldwide is in the United States

Documented transmission of HIV involves

Unprotected sexual intercourse and contact with blood / blood products

Hydrophobia, the dumb phase, and Nigra bodies in nervous tissue are all part of which disease

Rabies

All the following pertain to poliomyelitis has except

Summer outbreaks in the U.S. have been recently increasing

The major agents responsible for the common cold are

Rhinoviruses

The worldwide primary viral cause of morbidity and mortality from diarrhea is

Rotavirus

Which is incorrect about hepatitis A infection

It predisposes a person for liver cancer

The main route for transmission of HIV in most parts of the world is through

Heterosexual sex

Which area has the largest number of people living with HIV / AIDS

Sub-Saharan Africa

Which of the following is incorrect regarding coronaviruses

There are no test to confirm diagnosis

Which is incorrect about measles

Vaccination is with an attenuated oral vaccine

All the following are important bunyavirus disease except

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Which of the following diseases is not caused by paramyxovirus

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

All the following are correct about the polio vaccine except

The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) can occasionally revert to a neurovirulent strain

Which of the following is correct about polio

The virus multiplies in the mucosa of the intestines and is shed in feces

Cocksackieviruses

Can cause hand-foot-mouth disease

What does AIDS stand for

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

The primary transmission route for acquiring agents of the common cold is by contact with hands and fomites contaminated with the nasal discharges of an infected person

True

Influenza is predominantly transmitted by the fecal-oral route

False

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is caused by prion

False

Respiratory syncytial virus and rotavirus are major causes of global outbreaks in infants 6 months of age or younger

True

In rabies, spasms of muscles for swallowing leads to fear of water

True

The most serious teratogenic effects of intrauterine rubella infection occur if it is acquired during the third trimester

False

Molluscum contagiosum is transmitted by direct contact with skin lesions, fomites and sexual activity

True

Chickenpox is caused by a poxvirus

False

Varicella and herpes zoster are caused by the same virus

True

Virtually everyone becomes infected with the herpesviruses at some point in their lives

True

Zoster immune globulin (ZIG) and varicella-zoster immune globulin (VZIG) are attenuated vaccines for childhood vaccinations

False

Parvovirus B19 causes a fatal anemia in the fetus

True

There are vaccines for immunity to the Hepatitis B virus

True

Poxviruses are the largest and most complex of all animal viruses

True

The only bodily fluid that can transmit Hepatitis B virus is blood

False

Herpes Simplex 2 causes

1. Genital lesions


2. Intensely sensitive vesicles on or near genitals


3. Symptoms that include urethritis, cerethritis, and itching


4. Infection in neonates that have contact with lesions in birth canal

Chickenpox is

1. Transmitted by inhalation of respiratory secretions, skin lesion contact or airborne spread of lesion material


2. Has an incubation of 10 to 20 days


3. Has fever and vests Festivus vesicular rash that occurs in successive crops

Varicella virus

1. Uses the respiratory epithelium as a portal of Entry


2. Becomes latent in dorsal root ganglia that serves specific dermatomes


3. Has humans as its Reservoir


4. Causes chickenpox and shingles

Cytomegalovirus

1. Among the most common of human infections


2. Transmitted by saliva, respiratory mucus, milk, urine, semen, and cervical secretions


3. Can be sexually transmitted


4. Commonly carried in latent state

Hepatitis B virus

1. Principally transmitted by Blood


2. Transmission risk include share needles, anal intercourse, and heterosexual intercourse


3. Transmitted to the newborn from chronic carrier mothers


4. Has many chronic carriers

Adenoviruses are

1. Non enveloped, double-stranded, DNA viruses


2. Transmitted by respiratory and ocular secretions


3. Causes of conjunctivitis, common cold, and an acute hemorrhagic cystitis in children


4. Causes of outbreaks among military recruits

Polyomaviruses

1. Cause common asymptomatic to mild infections


2. Cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy


3. Causes problems in renal transplant patients


4. Include the JC virus and BK virus


Fifth disease

1. Caused by parvovirus B19


2. A childhood febrile disease with a bright red rash on the cheeks


3. Involves pathogens capable of crossing the placenta


4. In immunodeficient children


5 Destroys red blood cell stem cells

Which of the following are ways to control or treat hepatitis B

1. Recombinant interferon


2. Heptavax vaccine


3. Hepatitis B immune globin (HBIG)


4. Recombivax vaccine

Which of the following may cause reactivation of varicella-zoster virus as shingles

1. Developing malignancy


2. X-ray treatment


3. Immunosuppressive conditions


4. Surgery

Respiratory syncytial virus (Pneumovirus/ Paramyxovirus) causes

1. Serious disease in infants 6 months old or younger


2. Uses the nasopharynx as its main replication site


3. Can be treated with the antiviral aerosol Ribavirin


4. Synagis and RSV immunoglobulin help reduce complication and hospitalization

Treatment of an animal bite for possible rabies include

1. Debridement


2. Wash fight with soap or detergent


3. Wound is infused with human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG)


4. Post-exposure vaccination with HDCV

Yellow fever and Dengue Fever are

1. Caused by arboviruses


2. Caused by viruses that disrupt capillaries and blood clotting


3. Zoonoses


4. Transmitted by mosquito vector

Norwalk agent

1. A calicivirus


2. Transmitted orofocally


3. Sometimes acquired from contaminated water and shellfish


4. A common entric virus of gastroenteritis

Sporgiform encephalopathies

1. Associated with abnormal transmissible protein in the brain


2. Chronic fetal infections of the nervous system


3. Caused by prions


4. Creutzfeld-Jocab disease, kuru, and Gertsmann-Straussler-Scheinler syndrome