Funeral Compend Microbiology
Endospore formation is a characteristic of
Bacillus anthracis
What is a condition in which bacteria are found in the blood but not multiplying there?
Bacteremia
Which organism causes the disease known as thrush?
Candida
Which of the following structures interfere most with phagocytosis?
Capsules
Lymphogranuloma venereum is caused by a
Chlamydia
What term refers to the preference of a pathogen for a particular part of the body?
Elective localization
What are poisonous substances produced by bacteria and released only when the bacterial cells die and disintegrate?
Endotoxins
A case of any infectious disease produces an immunity to that disease.
FALSE
A vaccine establishes passive immunity.
FALSE
All members of the genus Neisseria are pathogenic to humans.
FALSE
An antiserum is a blood serum that contains antigens.
FALSE
Bacteria and their products are the only substances that stimulate the body cells of the host to produce antibodies.
FALSE
Direct contact is the most common mode of transmission for enteric infections.
FALSE
Living skin may be sterilized.
FALSE
Molds are nearly spherical in shape and reproduce by budding.
FALSE
Mycobacterium tuberculosis are encapsulated bacteria.
FALSE
Naturally acquired active immunity is established by actually having had the disease for which the immunity is specific.
FALSE
Opsonins are substances in the blood that dissolve bacteria.
FALSE
Rabies is caused by a pneumotropic virus.
FALSE
Recovery from rabies is usually rapid.
FALSE
Spotted fever diseases are caused by rickettsia and are transmitted by the mosquito.
FALSE
Streptococcus pyogenes may be the causative agent for scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, gonorrhea, and puerperal fever.
FALSE
The dermatropic virus diseases usually enter the body via the skin.
FALSE
The etiological agents for the disease tuberculosis are capable of forming endospores.
FALSE
The immunity resulting from the use of antibodies is more permanent than that resulting from the use of vaccines.
FALSE
Toxoids are used for the treatment of infectious diseases.
FALSE
Viral nucleic acid is composed of both RNA and DNA.
FALSE
Yeasts possess both sexual and asexual means for reproduction.
FALSE
What infection spreads from one area of infection to set up other areas of infection in the body?
Focal
Which of the following is caused by a member of the genus Stapylococcus?
Food poisoning
Which of the following is NOT a phenolic compound?
Glutaraldehyde
Which of the following is classified as viscerotropic?
Hepatitis
Which of the following would most likely transmit typhoid fever as a mechanical vector?
Housefly
Which of the following enzymes is often referred to as "the spreading factor"?
Hyaluronidase
The spread of microorganisms from host to host by food, milk and water is what mode of transmission?
Indirect contact
What term is defined as the degree of the ability of a microorganism to cause disease?
Infestation
Which of the following is a mode of direct disease transmission?
Mechanical vectors
What type of immunity is based solely on the genus and species of the host?
Natural immunity
Which of these chemical agents is described as a coal-tar derivative?
Phenol
What infection occurs in an individual who has other active infection?
Primary
Which of these microbes is known to produce an endotoxin?
Salmonella typhi
What is an infection of the blood with actual growth and multiplication of pathogens in the blood?
Septicemia
Which of the following is most likely to enter the body through the genitourinary tract?
Syphilis
An immunity resulting from the transmission of antibodies through the placenta is a form of natural immunity.
TRUE
Epidemic typhus is spread from person to person by the body louse.
TRUE
It is believed that the virus of rubeola enters the body by the mouth and nose.
TRUE
Passive immunization is used as a prophylactic measure in regard to a specific infection.
TRUE
Pathogenic protozoan parasites are microscopic in size.
TRUE
Rabies is caused by a neurotropic virus.
TRUE
Smallpox, if still a threat to man, could be transmitted from person to person by droplet infection.
TRUE
Staphylococcus aureus is the most common causative agent for boils.
TRUE
Tetanus and gas gangrene are considered to be non-communicable infections.
TRUE
The "Humoral Immunity Theory" involves the formation of antibodies in the blood.
TRUE
Which of the following is NOT applicable to viruses?
They are autotrophic organisms
Which of these statements is descriptive of spirochetes?
They are spiral-shaped microbes which move with a twisting axis
What is the implication of sterilization?
To render an object free of all living organisms
Which of the following organisms is the causative agent for a venereal disease?
Treponema pallidum.
Which of the following diseases may be caused by the organisms responsible for the infection entering the body through the unbroken skin?
Tularemia.
What is the proper term for smallpox?
Variola
Which of the following organisms requires living cells for growth and reproduction?
Viruses
Which of the following is a quaternary ammonium compound?
Zepphiran chloride
Antibodies that inactivate invading bacterial cells by causing the cells to form clumps are called
agglutinins
An association of two organisms that is detrimental to one is
antibiosis
The ultraviolet rays contained in direct sunlight
are bactericidal
The type of immunity that results from the inoculation of a toxoid is
artificially acquired active.
The type of acquired immunity that results from the inoculation of immune serum is called
artificially acquired passive.
Tuberculosis is an example of a
bacterial disease
Hemolysins and leucocidins are classified as
bacterial toxins
Least likely to be a viral disease is
bubonic plague
The structure providing a bacterial cell with rigidity and outlining the shape of the cell is the
cell wall.
The destruction of all pathogens and their products is termed
disinfection
Those bacteria that prefer to live in the presence of free oxygen but can live in the absence are called
facultative anaerobes
A bacterium that prefers dead inorganic material, but can also obtain nourishment from living organic material is a (an)
facultative parasite.
Those spore forming bacteria that currently contain spores are called
flagellates
The type of immunity that results from the inoculation of a toxoid is
innate
Epidemic typhus fevers are transmitted by
lice
A viral disease primarily of man is
mumps
Which disease is NOT dermatrophic?
mumps
Staphylococcus aureus causes
nosocomial infection
Malaria and amoebiasis are caused by
protozoa
The respiratory tract is the primary portal of entry for all of the following virus diseases except
rabies
With what disease is Varicella Zoster identified?
shingles
Spore forming bacteria under unfavorable conditions are called
sporulating
Which is not a viral disease?
syphilis
Protozoa may be classified as
unicellular
Vaccination with cowpox virus will produce an immunity to
variola
The study of the smallest microscopic life forms is
virology
Which of these terms is synonymous with bacteriostatic?
Antiseptic