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Sharing a glass of beer with a friend is |
Indirect contact transmission |
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Transmission of a disease agent by a cockroach is called a ___ transmission |
Zoonotic agent |
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Herd immunity can protect unvaccinated individuals |
True |
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Patients with neutropenia are more susceptible to bacterial and fungal infections |
True |
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Infections acquired medical interference is known as ____ transmission |
Iatrogenic |
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Controlling the spread of infection by isolating the sick from others is known as |
Quarantine |
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A disease that was controlled but is once again becoming increasingly important is known as a ______ disease |
Re-emerging |
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The symptoms of SARS are |
Fever, pneumonia with non-productive cough, lymphopenia, elevated ALT, AST |
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First reported in the Caribbean in December of 2013, a major outbreak continues today |
Chikungya encephalitis |
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Platelet transfusions is sometimes used to treat |
West Nile virus |
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An example of a viral hemorrhagic fever is |
Ebola |
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is transmitted by |
Aerosol route |
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SARS was a major problem to control. With the outbreak of an unknown severe pathogen what is the best of prevention in a hospital setting? |
You should mask all individuals with a cough, post a police nurse outside of patients with unknown pathogens' doors, separate the infected from the uninflected, enforce the hand washing rule, and tell all people coming to the hospital for elective surgeries to reschedule |
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During hand washing was are two things that should be done to avoid cross contamination |
Use a paper towel to shut off the water faucet, get paper towel before you wash your hands |
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When influenza enters the body it generally first infects the |
Upper airway |
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If the DNA code of one strand is CAGTAT then the RNA produced is |
AUACUG |
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The opening of the double helix for copying is initially done by |
Helicase |
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Termination of linear chromosomes involves |
Telomerase |
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What are Koch's postulates? |
Associate- finding some bacteria in some cases of disease; isolate - get a pure culture of said bacteria; inoculate- place bacteria in healthy host; reisolate - get pure culture from disease of new host |
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New strains of influenza normally emerge in Southeast Asia. However the 2009 swine flu first emerged in |
Central America |
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TSE is an example of a |
Prion |
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Microbial antagonism involves |
Normal flora |
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The time when initial very minor symptoms are noted |
Prodromal period |
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The containment of an infection by "permanently" surrounding it with a wall of immune cells (T cells and macrophages) is known as a |
Granuloma |
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The patient presents with several organ systems failing after an infection they are at what stage |
MODS |
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Protein denaturation and membrane lysis will happen rapidly when bacteria have passed the |
Maximal growth temperature |
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A microbe that can not tolerate the presence of oxygen is called |
Obligate anaerobe |
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Bacteria that have very recently run out of nutrient are entering this stage of growth |
Stationary phase |
