Microbiology quizzes Part 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

Malaria is caused by what?

A protozoan

Thrush

Candida albicans

Infection with ________ can lead to shingles later in life

Chickenpox

Fungal meningitis

Cryptococcus neoformans

What is the most common waterborne illness in the US?

Cryptosporidiosis

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

Gonorrhea

What virus causes AIDS

HIV

What cells of the body does HIV attack?

Helper T cells

A patient gets nosocomial infections primarily from

Hospitals and healthcare settings

Healthcare associated infections are called _____________ infections.

Nosocomial

Which disease can you get from cleaning your cat's litter box?

Toxoplasmosis

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

Chlamydia trachomatis

Which bacterium causes diphtheria?

Clostridium diphtheriae

Gas gangrene is caused by the pathogen

Clostridium perfringens

Which bacterium causes tissue gas?

Clostridium perfringens

Lockjaw is characterized by

Contractions of mandibular muscles

What kind of virus causes COVID-19

Coronavirus

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 diease

Epidemic typhus

An area of dead tissue in cutaneous anthrax is _______________.

Eschar

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

Legionnaires' Disease is caused by the pathogen

Legionella pneumophilia

Which bacterium causes scarlet fever?

Streptococcus pyogenes

Which bacterium causes strep throat

Streptococcus pyogenes

Gumma are rubberlike lesions most associated with the disease

Syphilis

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

Syphilis

Jock itch is caused by

The fungus Tinea cruris

Dermatropic disease are directly associated with

The integumentary system

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

botulism

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

dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord

Aspergillus glacus infects ______________.

dried fruit

Inflammation of the brain is called _________

encephalitis

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

Tetanus is also known as ____________.

lockjaw

Quinine is the treatment for ______________.

malaria

Amebic dysentery

Entamoeba histolytica

What virus causes West Nile

Flavivirus

African trypanosomiasis is commonly called _________________.

African tsetse fly

What is the vector for malaria?

Anopheles mosquito

What are the smallest free-living organisms in nature?

Mycoplasmas

Mumps is the infection of the

Parotid glands

Francisella tularensis causes tularemia, which is also called

Rabbit Fever

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

Ringworm

What are the names of the polio vaccines

Sabin, Salk

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 agactiae

Which bacterium causes childbirth fever?

Streptococcus pyogenes

Thrush is ____________.

a fungal infection where there is white growth on the tongue

Fungi lack _______________, so they are not photosynthetic.

chlorophyll

Cold sores are caused by ______ virus

herpes simplex 1

Spongiform encephalopathies leave what

Holes in brain tissue

What part of the body does hepatitis affect?

Liver

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

Measles

What cells of the body does the mononucleosis virus attack?

Memory B cells

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

East African Sleep Disease

Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

What virus causes chicken pox?

Varicella-zoster virus

What transmits Lyme disease?

deer ticks and field mice ticks

Fungal infections of the skin are called ________________.

dermatomycoses

Which muscles are first affected by tetanus?

jaw muscles

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

red blood cells

A fungal infection of the scalp is

ringworm

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

salivary glands

What is the vector for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?

ticks

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

toxoplasmosis

What is a furuncle?

Serious hair follicle infection called a boil

Which disease is NOT an example of a pneumotropic disease?

Shingles

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

Smallpox

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

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

virus

Yersinia Pestis is the causative agent for which disease?

Bubonic Plague

What part of the body does rabies attack?

CNS

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

COVID-19

What causes yeast infections in women

Candida albicans

What gases make up tissue gas?

Carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas

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

Scarlet Fever

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

Sexually transmitted disease

How many viruses can cause the common cold?

over 200

Plasmodium causes

malaria

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

Birds

You have a skin infection introduced by a kiss from the parasitic bloodborne triatomine bug. You've got a case of

Chagas Disease

Which bacterium causes gangrene?

Clostridium perfringens

Malaria is spread through which vector?

Anopheles mosquito

What disease is associated with farmers, gardens and rotting vegetation?

Aspergillosis

The toxin aflatoxin is produced by

Aspergillus flavus

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

Human body lice

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

Impetigo

PCP

Pneumocystis carinii

A small, protein, infectious particle is a

Prion

Which is NOT one of the three categories of fungi?

Protozoa

Which of the following microorganisms causes African trypanosomiasis and is spread by the tsetse fly?

Protozoa

Which of the following refers to fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails

Tineas

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