Microbiology Lecture Exam 1 part 2
9vHPV vaccine
Genetically engineered vaccine
Theoretically, Gardasil given to males could prevent which of the following diseases, if the man was exposed to the sexually transmitted form of the virus. (mark 3 letters)
Genital warts, Genital warts, and Oral cancer
The MMR vaccine provides protection from mumps, measles and __________.
German measles
Which one of the following is an obligate intracellular parasite?
HIV
Influenza vaccine
Kill/Inactive vaccine
This microbe is resistant to all antibiotics except vancomycin.
MRSA
The drug quinine was/is used as treatment for this disease:
Malaria
Before a vaccine was developed, Haemophilus influenzae type B was the leading cause of _____ in children under the age of 5.
Meningitis
An exception to Koch's postulates is made for pneumonia because:
More than one microbe causes pneumonia
Malaria
Plasmodium
The disease that is next on the list to be eradicated from the world is:
Polio
Taking an antibiotic to prevent disease from occurring (such as when a person goes to the dentist), is known as:
Prophylaxis
Patients not completing their prescriptions, doctors prescribing antibiotics for viral infections, and animals being fed low doses of antibiotics has led to bacteria becoming __________ to drugs:
Resistant
This type of vaccination, which was used to eradicate a disease, results in a buffer of immune individuals to prevent the spread of disease?
Ring
When a vaccine doesn't take an individual would test:
Seronegative
If a person recovers from disease and has an anamnestic response the individual will test:
Seropositive
Acellular pertussis vaccine.
Subunit vaccine
If a person is vaccinated and the vaccine doesn't take it means that:
The individual did not have an anamnestic response
A person is given drugs to treat TB and after 6 months is told to stop taking the drugs since resistance has developed. What does this mean?
The microbe is resistant to the drugs, so the drugs no longer work
Which of the following is not one of Koch's postulates?
The pathogen should be tested for its resistance to antibiotics
This theory is no longer accepted today:
Theory of Spontaneous generation
Tetanus vaccine
Toxoid vaccine
The cause of Syphilis is?
Treponema pallidum
Meningococcal vaccine
Unconjugated polysaccharide vaccine
Which one of the following would not be an example of chemotherapy?
Vaccination against tetanus
Chickenpox
Varicella Zoster virus
During which stage will a person be seronegative?
Where disease begins (occurs)
Herd immunity is reached when this percentage (minimum) of a population is immune to a disease:
85-95
Which vaccine provides protection against whooping cough?
Acellular pertussis
Immunoglobulins are:
Antibodies
Vaccination/Immunization is intentional exposure to:
Antigens
MMR vaccine.
Attenuated vaccine
Which statement about prions is incorrect?
Can be destroyed by autoclaving
HiB vaccine
Conjugated vaccine
In the 1700s, protection against smallpox was obtained by purposely infecting people with:
Cowpox
