Embalming Micro. MOD 5 Review
Which bacterium causes diphtheria?
Clostridium diphtheriae
Lockjaw is characterized by?
Contractions of mandibular muscles
A patient gets nosocomial infections primarily from?
Hospitals and healthcare settings
In what disease is the tongue spotted with a strawberry-like appearance?
scarlet fever
Lyme disease is caused by which bacterium?
Borrelia burgdorferi
Which bacterium causes tissue gas?
Clostridium perfringens
What transmits Lyme disease?
Deer tick and field mice ticks
An area of dead tissue in cutaneous anthrax is _______________.
Eschar
Traveler's Diarrhea is caused by the pathogen
Escherichia coli
Legionnaires' Disease is caused by the pathogen
Legionella pneumophilia
Which bacterium causes scarlet fever?
Streptococcus pyogenes
Which bacterium causes strep throat?
Streptococcus pyogenes
Necrosis of tissue is called _____________?
gangrene
Antimicrobial eye drops or silver nitrate placed in a baby's eyes on delivery because of the possibility of what disease?
gonorrhea
Tetanus is also known as ____________.
lockjaw
Healthcare associated infections are called _____________ infections.
nosocomial
What is a furuncle?
serious hair follicle infection called a boil
Which bacterium causes a furuncle?
staphylococcus aureus
Which bacterium causes toxic shock syndrome?
Staphylococcus aureus
Which bacterium is common in raw milk and causes bacterial sepsis and meningitis in newborns, and uterine infections in postpartum women?
Streptococcus agalactiae
Which bacterium causes childbirth fever?
Streptococcus pyogenes
What gases make up tissue gas?
carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas
What is a local skin infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes that mostly infects children who scratch insect bites?
impetigo
Reheating food contaminated with Staphylococci will kill the bacteria itself but not the toxin? (True or False)
True
The scientific name for lockjaw is tetanus? (True or False)
True
What disease in infants results from ingesting honey contaminated with C. botulinum spores?
botulism
Which muscles are first affected by tetanus?
jaw muscles
The disease _______________ is caused by Treponema pallidum and has three stages to it.
syphilis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis. When the bacterium invades attacking macrophages, a nodule in the lungs called a/n ____________ forms.
tubercle
Yersinia Pestis is the causative agent for which disease?
Bubonic Plague
Select the term or phrase that is NOT associated with St. Vitus' Dance
Sexually transmitted disease
Gas gangrene is caused by the pathogen?
Clostridium perfringens
Which bacterium causes gangrene?
Clostridium perfringens
Gumma are rubberlike lesions most associated with the disease
Syphilis
