Microbiology Term 2

Lyme disease is caused by which bacterium?

Borrelia burgdorferi

Your kid came home this weekend with swelling of the parotid salivary glands after playing an ill-advised game of Spin the Bottle and kissing a stranger. Your kid probably has the dreaded

Epstein-Barr virus

What virus causes chickenpox?

Varicella-zoster

Aspergillus glacus infects

dried fruit

An intracellular parasite that is genetic material in a protein coat is a _____________.

virus

African trypanosomiasis is commonly called _________________.

African sleeping sickness

What is the vector for malaria?

Anopheles mosquito

The toxin aflatoxin is produced by _____________.

Aspergillus flavus

The prefix "orni-" (as in ornithosis) pertains to that which originates from

Birds

Yersinia Pestis is the causative agent for which disease?

Bubonic Plague

Loss of smell and taste is an odd symptom of what disease?

COVID-19

What causes yeast infections in women?

Candida albicans

What part of the body does rabies attack?

Central Nervous System (CNS)

What is the most frequently reported sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen in the US?

Chlamydia trachomatis

Which bacterium causes diphtheria?

Clostridium diphtheria

Gas gangrene is caused by the pathogen

Clostridium perfringens

Which bacterium causes gangrene?

Clostridium perfringens

Which bacterium causes tissue gas?

Clostridium perfringens

Lockjaw is characterized by

Contractions of mandibular muscles

Traveler's Diarrhea is caused by the pathogen

Escherichia coli

Chlamydia trachomatis only causes venereal diseases.

False

Mycoplasma, chlamydia, and rickettsia are bacterial diseases that come from the same

Genera

What virus causes AIDS?

HIV

What cells of the body does HIV attack?

Helper T cells

Spongiform encephalopathies leave what?

Holes in brain tissue

A patient gets nosocomial infections primarily from

Hospitals and healthcare settings

Rickettsia prowazekii causes the disease epidemic typhus. What is that disease's mode of transmission?

Human body lice

Legionnaires' Disease is caused by the pathogen

Legionella pneumophilia

What cells of the body does the mononucleosis virus attack?

Memory B cells

What are the smallest free-living organisms in nature?

Mycoplasmas

The malaria protozoan ends up in the human _____________, where it causes the disease.

Red blood cells

What are the names of the polio vaccines?

Sabin, Salk

Select the term or phrase that is NOT associated with St. Vitus' Dance

Sexually transmitted disease

Which disease is NOT an example of a pneumotropic disease?

Shingles

Which bacterium causes a furuncle?

Staphylococcus aureus

Which bacterium causes toxic shock syndrome?

Staphylococcus aureus

1.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

Which bacterium causes scarlet fever?

Streptococcus pyogenes

Which bacterium causes strep throat?

Streptococcus pyogenes

Gumma are rubberlike lesions most associated with the disease

Syphilis

Jock itch is caused by

The fungus Tinea cruris

Dermatropic diseases are directly associated with

The integumentary system

What is the vector for West Nile virus?

Tiger mosquito

Reheating food contaminated with Staphylococci will kill the bacteria itself but not the toxin.

True

The scientific name for lockjaw is tetanus.

True

Why is smallpox still considered a global threat despite it being eradicated as a disease in the recent past?

Two samples still exist in rival countries the US and USSR

What virus causes West Nile?

a flavivirus

Thrush is ____________.

a fungal infection where there is white growth on the tongue

What disease in infants results from ingesting honey contaminated with C. botulinum spores?

botulism

What gases make up tissue gas?

carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas

Infection with ______________ can lead to shingles later in life.

chickenpox

Fungi lack _______________, so they are not photosynthetic.

chlorophyll

What kind of virus causes COVID-19?

coronavirus

What transmits Lyme disease?

deer ticks and field mice ticks

Fungal infections of the skin are called ________________.

dermatomycoses

The chickenpox virus can remain dormant in what part of the body?

dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord

Inflammation of the brain is called ________________.

encephalitis

Picking at the bedclothes is an odd symptom of what disease?

epidemic typhus

The tongue is covered with a white or black fur and is rolled up in the disease ___________.

epidemic typhus

An area of dead tissue in cutaneous anthrax is _______________.

eschar

Yeasts are ______________.

fungi

Necrosis of tissue is called _____________.

gangrene

What disease is caused by a protozoan that has two nuclei and can be found in all types of water, even chlorinated water?

giardiasis

Antimicrobial eye drops or silver nitrate placed in a baby's eyes on delivery because of the possibility of what disease?

gonorrhea

Cold sores are caused by ______________ virus.

herpes simplex 1

1.What is a local skin infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes that mostly infects children who scratch insect bites?

impetigo

Which muscles are first affected by tetanus?

jaw muscles

What part of the body does hepatitis affect?

liver

Tetanus is also known as ____________.

lockjaw

Plasmodium causes __________________.

malaria

Quinine is the treatment for ______________.

malaria

What virus is dangerous for a mother to contract in the first trimester and will result in birth defects?

measles

Healthcare associated infections are called _____________ infections.

nosocomial

How many viruses can cause the common cold?

over 200

Mumps is the infection of the ____________________.

parotid glands

A small, protein, infectious particle is a __________________.

prion

Francisella tularensis causes tularemia, which is also called __________.

rabbit fever

A fungal infection of the scalp is ____________.

ringworm

In what fungal disease does a circular rash clear up in the middle as it spreads outward?

ringworm

In what part of the insect vector's body does the protozoan that causes malaria reside?

salivary glands

In what disease is the tongue spotted with a strawberry-like appearance?

scarlet fever

What is a furuncle?

serious hair follicle infection called a boil

What is the only viral disease that has been eradicated from the world?

smallpox

The disease _______________ is caused by Treponema pallidum and has three stages to it.

syphilis

What is the vector for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?

ticks

Pregnant women shouldn't clean litter boxes to avoid the disease ___________.

toxoplasmosis

Cryptosporidium parvum often causes _______________.

traveler's diarrhea

What is the vector for African sleeping sickness?

tsetse fly

Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis. When the bacterium invades attacking macrophages, a nodule in the lungs called a/n ____________ forms.

tubercle