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Question | Answer |
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What is the description of Bacteria? | Single Celled organisms that reproduce and multiply rapidly. They can cause disease and are classified by their shape. |
What causes rheumatic fever? | Streptococci |
What can form spores? | Bacilli |
What shape is Diplococci? | Spherical in pairs |
What causes strep throat? | Streptococci |
What causes meningitis? | Diplococci |
What shape is Streptococci? | Round in chains |
What is the definition of Viruses? | Live inside cells, Smallest microorganisms. Spread by body fluids; even in droplets. |
what causes pneumonia? | Diplococci |
What shape is bacilli? | Rod shaped in pairs, chains, or single. |
What causes colds? | Viruses |
What is Round in Clusters? | Staphylococci |
What's hard to see? | Prions |
What causes warts? | viruses |
what causes athlete's foot? | fungus |
What can have flagella? | Bacilli |
What is the definition of Fungi? | Fungus that causes disease; mostly on the skin. |
How can someone get Protozoa? | contaminated well |
What is spiral in shape? | Spirilli |
What causes ringworm? | fungus |
what causes aids? | viruses |
What can cause boils? | Bacilli |
What's the description of protozoa? | Single-celled |
What can cause toxic shock? | Bacilli |
What causes Cholera? | Spirilli |
What causes Mountain Fever? | Rickettsias |
What causes mad cow disease? | Prions |
What are ricketsias? | Parasites in parasites |
What causes Syphilis? | Spirili |
What can cause wound infections? | Bacilli |
How could someone get Lyme disease? | Rickettsias |
What are the 4 stages of infection? | Incubation, Prodominal, Illness, and Convalescence |
What are some examples of an Infectious Agent? | Any Pathogen |
What is a Host? | Another infected person |
What happens during the Incubation period? | A pathogen enters and there are unspecific symptoms |
What is an Entrance? | Any opening |
What are the 6 chains of infection? | Infectious Agent, Reservoir, Exit Route, Transmission, and Host |
What happens during the Prodominal Stage? | A person is contagious |
What are some examples of a Reservoir? | Any contaminated object |
What are some examples of Transmission? | By hands, food, |
What happens during the Convalescense stage? | Recovery |
What happens during the illness stage? | Specific Symptoms appear |
What is an example of an exit route? | Mouth, Saliva, Mucus |
What are the Stages of Infection in order? | incubation prodominal illness convalescense |
What is the Chain of Infection in order? | Infectious Agent Reservoir Exit Route Transmission Entrance Host |