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Viruses with single stranded DNA |
Parvoviruses |
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Which is not correct about parvoviruses |
They cannot be transmissible to the fetus |
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All of the following belong to the Herpesvirdae expect |
Variola virus |
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Smallpox is a disease in which |
Fever, prostation, rash, and possible toxemia and shock occur |
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All of the following pertain to monkeypox except |
The virus has shown a trend in becoming less virulent with fewer out breaks in human |
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All of the following pertain to HSV-1 except |
It is latent in the lumbosacral spinal nerve ganglia |
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An occasional serious complication of HSV-1 |
Encephalitis |
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Which of the following antiviral is not used for treatment of HSV-1 and HSV-2 |
Interfero |
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Herpes whitlow is a deep set HSV infection of the |
Finger |
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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 |
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Epstein-Barr virus has the following characteristics except |
It infects the respiratory epithelium |
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Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis include |
Sore throat, fever, cervical lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly |
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Cytomegalovirus mononucleosis typically has fever and lymphocytosis, but in severely immunocompromised patients symptoms include |
Severe diarrhea, pneumonitis, hepatitis, and retinitis |
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The patients at greatest risk for severe cytomegalovirus infection include all the following except |
Individuals with hypertension |
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Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) has the following characteristics except |
It causes Kaposi's sarcoma |
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Inflammation of the liver with necrosis of the hepatocytes and swelling due to mononuclear response is a disease called |
Hepatitis |
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The hepadnaviruses |
Show tropism for the liver |
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Hepatitis B infection |
Increases risk for hepatocellular cancer |
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Which is incorrect about warts |
Are usually cancerous |
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All of the following pertain to genital warts except |
Are not common in the U.S.A. |
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Which of the following viruses is an RNA virus that causes many cases of infusion hepatitis so I know |
Adenovirus |
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When bilirubin accumulates in the blood and tissues it causes |
Jaundice |
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All of the following are similarities between HAV, HBV, and HCV except |
They are all RNA viruses |
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Which virus may play a role in multiple sclerosis |
Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) |
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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 |
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Which is not correct about genital warts |
The etiological agent is the human polyoma virus JC |
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Which is incorrect about smallpox |
Transmision is ingesting contaminated water or food |
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Which is incorrect about viral diseases |
Most DNA viruses multiply in and are released from the cytoplasm |
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Characteristics of the Orthomyxoviruses include all of the following except |
Include Paramyxoviruses |
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The enzyme associated with the influenza virus that hydrolyzes the protective mucous of the respiratory tract |
Neuraminidase |
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Inhalation of respiratory secretions is involved in the transmission of the following except |
Dengue fever |
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Symptoms of influenza |
Fever, myalgia, sore throat, cough, and nasal discharge |
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Influenza vaccines include all of the following except |
Provides lifelong immunity |
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Which is not a disease caused by Arenaviruses? |
Hantaviruses |
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Parainfuenza virus |
Causes croup, bronchitis, and bronchopneumonia |
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Orchitis and epididymitis is seen in young adult males as a complication of |
Mumps |
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Oral lesions called Koplik's spots are seen in patients with |
Measles ( rubeola) |
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This infection is marked by labored noisy breathing and horse cough |
Croup |
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The febrile disease with a rash has a pathogen that can cross the placenta and cause serious fetal damage |
Rubella |
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Which is incorrect about the MMR immunization |
Contains toxoids |
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All the following pertain to measles (rubeola) except |
Transmitted by direct contact with the rash |
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Which is incorrect about rabies |
Average incubation in human is one week |
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Coronaviruses cause |
Common cold and SARS |
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Sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) |
Can cause high fever, pneumonia, and respiratory distress |
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Rubella is |
Associated with congenital transmission causing miscarriage, deafness, and cardiac and mental defects |
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All arboviruses involve |
Anthropod vectors |
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Encephalitis caused by arboviruses |
Coma, convulsions, and paralysis in severe cases |
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Which of the following is a hemorrhagic fever |
Yellow fever |
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Are frequent cancer that is seen in AIDS patient is |
Kaposi's sarcoma |
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West Nile has the following characteristics except |
Causes hemorrhagic fever |
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Retroviruses have the following characteristics except |
DNA genome |
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All of the following pertain to patients with AIDS except |
Highest number of cases worldwide is in the United States |
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Documented transmission of HIV involves |
Unprotected sexual intercourse and contact with blood / blood products |
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Hydrophobia, the dumb phase, and Nigra bodies in nervous tissue are all part of which disease |
Rabies |
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All the following pertain to poliomyelitis has except |
Summer outbreaks in the U.S. have been recently increasing |
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The major agents responsible for the common cold are |
Rhinoviruses |
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The worldwide primary viral cause of morbidity and mortality from diarrhea is |
Rotavirus |
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Which is incorrect about hepatitis A infection |
It predisposes a person for liver cancer |
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The main route for transmission of HIV in most parts of the world is through |
Heterosexual sex |
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Which area has the largest number of people living with HIV / AIDS |
Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Which of the following is incorrect regarding coronaviruses |
There are no test to confirm diagnosis |
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Which is incorrect about measles |
Vaccination is with an attenuated oral vaccine |
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All the following are important bunyavirus disease except |
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) |
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Which of the following diseases is not caused by paramyxovirus |
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) |
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All the following are correct about the polio vaccine except |
The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) can occasionally revert to a neurovirulent strain |
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Which of the following is correct about polio |
The virus multiplies in the mucosa of the intestines and is shed in feces |
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Cocksackieviruses |
Can cause hand-foot-mouth disease |
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What does AIDS stand for |
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
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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 |
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Influenza is predominantly transmitted by the fecal-oral route |
False |
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is caused by prion |
False |
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Respiratory syncytial virus and rotavirus are major causes of global outbreaks in infants 6 months of age or younger |
True |
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In rabies, spasms of muscles for swallowing leads to fear of water |
True |
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The most serious teratogenic effects of intrauterine rubella infection occur if it is acquired during the third trimester |
False |
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Molluscum contagiosum is transmitted by direct contact with skin lesions, fomites and sexual activity |
True |
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Chickenpox is caused by a poxvirus |
False |
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Varicella and herpes zoster are caused by the same virus |
True |
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Virtually everyone becomes infected with the herpesviruses at some point in their lives |
True |
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Zoster immune globulin (ZIG) and varicella-zoster immune globulin (VZIG) are attenuated vaccines for childhood vaccinations |
False |
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Parvovirus B19 causes a fatal anemia in the fetus |
True |
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There are vaccines for immunity to the Hepatitis B virus |
True |
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Poxviruses are the largest and most complex of all animal viruses |
True |
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The only bodily fluid that can transmit Hepatitis B virus is blood |
False |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Norwalk agent |
1. A calicivirus 2. Transmitted orofocally 3. Sometimes acquired from contaminated water and shellfish 4. A common entric virus of gastroenteritis |
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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 |