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