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Chapter 14
Dr. Herber Practice test
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
05/30/2011

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A symptom:
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CAN BE OBSERVED OR FELT ONLY BY THE PATIENT
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Which of the following microbes easily satisfies Koch’s postulates?
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IT IS PLAGUE AS IT CAN BE ISOLATED FROM SICK PATIENTS.
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A secondary infection that occurs after the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and the subsequent destruction of the normal microbiota would be considered a ?
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SUPER INFECTION.
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Streptococcus pyogenes is a causative agent of ???
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SCARLET FEVER.
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Diseases in which permanent damage occurs produce ???
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SEQUELAE
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Infection that does not produce a full set of signs and symptoms is called an ?
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INAPPARENT INFECTION.
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Which of the following do not affect the incubation period of an infectious disease?
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It is THE TIME BETWEEN SYMPTOMS ARISE AND MICROBE IS TRANSMITTED.
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An idiopathic disease ?
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HAS UNKNOWN CAUSES.
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A productive infection .....?
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OCCURS WHEN THE VIRUS ENTERS THE CELL AND PRODUCES OFFSPRING.
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Exotoxins
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ARE SOLUBLE SUBSTANCES SECRETED INTO HOST TISSUES.
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Iatrogenic diseases
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INCLUDE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS.
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Sudden or severe onset of signs and symptoms during acme is referred to as ?
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FULMINATING.
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Endotoxins
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HAVE NONSPECIFIC EFFECTS SUCH AS FEVER.
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Toxoid
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IS AN ALTERED TOXIN THAT RETAINS ITS ANTIGENICITY.
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Eradication of a given infectious disease is...
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DIFFICULT DUE TO THE POLITIC, ECONOMIC, AND SCIENTIFIC BARRIERS.
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Giardia intestinalis, a protozoan, produces the following virulence factor:
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ADHESIVE DISC.
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Microbial competition is???
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BENEFICIAL WHEN COMMENSAL BACTERIA PREVENT PATHOGEN TO COLONIZE.
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The microorganism Staphylococcus aureus causes which condition?
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SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME.
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