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Question | Answer |
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Ability to cause disease | Pathogenicity |
Use of pili or fimbriae | Adherence to host |
Collagenase or hyaluronidase | Invasion |
Change of shape of surface antigens | Antigenic switching |
Ability to cause serious disease | Virulence |
Infections that are hospital acquired | nosocomial |
Disease that is caused by health professionals | iatrogenic |
Two dissimilar organisms living together | symbiosis |
One benefits; other unaffected | commensalism |
hookworms causing iron deficiency | parasitism |
vitamin K producing bacteria | mutualism |
bacterial growth phases: | lag phase log phase stationary phase death phase |
lag phase | metabolic activity without division |
log phase | exponential growth |
stationary | growth = death |
death phase | nutrients are completely used up |
Nonspecific immunity is also known as | innate immunity |
The process that attracts white blood cells to the area of damage | chemotaxis |
95% of circulating lymphocytes are | T lymphocytes |
B lymphocytes are also known as | plasma cells |
Complement fragments that bind to the surface of bacteria are called | opsonins |
Most abundant in circulation | IgG--monomer |
In saliva, tears, and breast milk | IgA--Dimer |
Secreted early on; agglutination, phagocytosis, and lysis | IgM--Pentamer |
Parasitic infections | IgE--Monomer |
Activates B cells | IgD--Monomer |
3 Immunoglobulins that are monomers | IgG IgD IgE |
The Fab (arms of the Y) is responsible for | antigen binding specificity |
Antibodies belong to a class of proteins called | immunoglobulins |
Antibodies have this shape | Y |
The Fc (tail of the Y) region determines the type of | immunoglobulin |
Antibodies bind to (promotes destruction of) | antigens |
Lymphocytes involved in humoral immunity | B lymphocytes |
Lymphocytes involved in cell-mediated immunity | T lymphocytes |
Antibodies produced after infection | Natural active |
Antibodies transferred to the infant at birth | Natural passive |
Antibodies induced by immunization | Artificial active |
Antibodies injected into the patient | Artificial passive |
Type I hypersensitivity reaction | Mast cell degranulation |
Type II hypersensitivity reaction | Cytotoxic |
Type III hypersensitivity reaction | Immune complex deposits |
Type IV hypersensitivity reaction | Delayed hypersensitivity |
All DNA viruses are double stranded except the | Parvo virus |
The human papilloma virus causes | cervical cancer |
All the hepatitis viruses are RNA except | hepatitis B |
The Epstein Barr virus is associated with | Burkitt's Lymphoma (& Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma) |
All RNA viruses are single stranded except the | Rota virus (REO) |
Downey cells are also known as | atypical lymphocytes |
The Paul Bunnel test is positive for | HHV Type IV (Epstein Barr Virus) |
The Parvo B19 virus causes | slapped cheek syndrome |
The Epstein Barr virus is | HHV type 4 |
HHV type 3 is | varicella zoster virus |
HHV types 1 & 2 are associated with | coldsores |
Cytomegalovirus is HHV type | 5 |
HHV type 8 causes | Kaposi's sarcoma |
The most common cause of the common cold is the | Rhino virus |
The 2nd most common cause of the common cold is the | Corona virus |
Dengue fever virus is spread by the | Aedes aegypti mosquitoes |
Hepatitis B and C are spread by | sex, blood transfusions, and the use of intravenous drugs |
Measles is also known as | rubeola |
Mumps is associated with the | paramyxo virus |
Poliomyelitis causes | flaccid muscle paralysis |
Negri bodies in the brain are associated with | rabies |
ARBO viruses are spread by | mosquitoes |
The Zika virus is believed to cause | microcephaly in pregnant women |
Bacteria that cannot live without oxygen are classified as | obligate aerobes |
Clostridia is an example of an | obligate anaerobe |
Can live without oxygen but prefer to have some available | Facultative anaerobes |
Bacteria that prefer cold temperatures | Psychrophiles |
Comma shaped | vibrio |
Round shaped | coccus |
Rod shaped | bacillus |
All bacteria have cells walls except | Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
Rickettsia ricketsii causes | Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
Borrelia burgdorferi causes | Lyme's disease |
Leprosy is also known as | Hansen's disease |
Infection of bone | Osteomyelitis |
Deep painful skin infection (hair follicles) | Carbuncles |
Fever, chills, and blistering skin rash | Erysipelas |
Fever, red rash, and strawberry tongue | Scarlet fever |
Skin infection with honey colored crusts | Impetigo |
Fever, joint pains, and erythema marginatum | Rheumatic fever |
Gas gangrene | Clostridium perfringes (gas perforates) |
Trismus | Clostridium tetani (T-rismus, T-etani) |
Spread by inhalation | Bacillus anthracis (an-thorax-is) |
Grey pseudo-membrane | - Corynebacterium diptheria (dip-there-in grey paint to coat pseudo-membrane) |
Blocks acetylcholine release | Clostridium botulinum (block-ulinum) |
Causes atypical pneumonia | Legionella pneumophilia (pneumonia--pneumophiia) |
Causes undulant fever | Brucella abortus (Bruce had a bad fever) |
Causes cat scratch disease | Bartonella henselae (the cat Bart Henselae scratched me) |
Causes whooping cough | Bordetella pertussis (tussis is latin for cough) |
Causes chancroid | Hemophelia ducreyi (i do cry when i get a chancroid) |
Causes the plague | Yersinia pestis (pests) |
Traveler's diarrhea, UTI | Eschericia coli (diarrhea is rough on the coli-n) |
Bloody diarrhea | Shigella dysenteriae (shit, Ella, dysentery makes bloody diarrhea) |
Red currant jelly sputum | Klebsiella pneuomoniae (kielbossa jelly) |
Peptic ulcer disease | Helicobacter pylori (pyloric PUD) |
Produced from dead gram negative bacteria | Endotoxins |
Blocks glycine | Tetanus |
Rice water stool | Vibrio cholera |
Muscle (Ach) | Botulism |
Bacillary dysentery refers to | bloody diarrhea |
Infection of the coverings of the brain | Meningitis |
Which pneumonias are NOT caused by more common organisms like streptococcus or kelbsiella pneumoniae | Atypical pneumonias |
Tinea capitis-(Cap) | head |
Tinea corporis-(Corpse) | body |
Tinea cruris-(Crotch) | groin |
Tinea pedis-(punt) | feet |
Tinea manum-(mangle) | hand |
Tinea ungium-(ungs) | nail |
A thick, white, cheesy discharge is seen with a | Candida albicans infection |
Microorganisms that are eukaryotic with ergosterol in the cell membranes | Fungal |
Some fungi are dimorphic and can exist as | mold or yeast |
Another name for ringworm--Tina | Tinea |
Required for growth of dermatophytes | keratin |
Also known as Ohio Valley fever | histOplasmosis--(Hist-Ohio-plasmo) |
Also known as San Joaquin Valley fever | coccidiomycosis--(Joaquin Phoenix) |
The most deadly form of malaria is associated with | plasmodium falciparum |
Hiker's diarrhea is associated with this most common intestinal parasite. | giardia lamblia |
Ascaris lumbricoides | roundworm--(A scar is lumbar round) |
Necator americanus | hookworm--(Hooked on American nectar--Iron deficiency anemia) |
Enterobius vermicularis | pinworm--(pins enter vermin)--MC intestinal nematode in USA |
Trichinella spiralis | pork roundworm--(Tri-Spork) |
Lives on the outside of the host | ectoparasite |
In malaria, the mosquito is the | vector |
Multicellular parasites | metazoa |
Moves by pseudopodia | amoeba |
The flagellata that causes a green, frothy, malodorous vaginal discharge-(Tri-colored vagina) | trichomona vaginalis |
The most common intestinal parasite in the USA is | giardia lamblia |
Sleeping sickness is transmitted by the (Teets make sleepy) | tsetse fly (Tryp-on-Bruce) |
Trypanosoma cruzi causes | chagas disease--(choking) |
Plasmodium falciparum is transmitted by the | female anopheles mosquito spreading malaria |
New cases in a given time | incidence |
Number living with disease at a given time | prevalence |
Die from a particular disease/100,000 | Mortality rate |
Have a disease/100,000 | Morbidity rate |
Normal occurance | Endemic |
Sudden increase in disease | Epidemic |
Sudden rise worldwide | Pandemic |
Body fluids from infected person | Ebola |
Infected deer ticks | Lyme disease |
Sexual transmission and infected blood | HIV/AIDS |
Urine, saliva, and feces of infected rats | Hanta virus |
Corona virus from infected birds | SARS |
Working with infected pigs | H1N1 |
Corona virus from infected camel | MERS |
The microorganism associated with MRSA is | Stapholococcus aureus |
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients may need to be kept in | isolation |
Wood's lamp is used to detect | fungal infections |
The Ascoli test detects | anthrax bacilli |
Staphylococcus aureus is | coagulase positive |
The confirmatory test for syphilis is | FTA |
An ASO titer of >160 Todd units indicates a recent | streptococcal infection |
The Paul Bunnel test is positive for | infectious mononucleosis |
RPR and VDRL are screening tests for | syphilis |
The Mantoux or Tine test is for | TB |
The Schick test evaluates susceptibility to | diphtheria |
Use of evidence | based clinical practice |
Rehabilitation | Tertiary prevention |
Exercise, hand | washing |
Health screening for cervical cancer | Secondary prevention |
Developed vaccine from killed polio virus | Jonas Salk |
Proposed germ theory of disease | Louis Pasteur |
Coined "prion" for diseases caused by protein particles | Stanley Prusiner |
Introduced hand washing in 19th century | Ignazio Semmelweiss |
Discovered penicillin | Alexander Flemming |
Father of Microbiology | Robert Koch |
Poison ivy | Type IV hypersensitivity reaction (IV=ivy) |
Erythroblastosis fetalis | Type II hypersensitivity reaction |
Bee sting | Type I hypersensitivity reaction (1 stinger) |
Myasthenia gravis | Type II hypersensitivity reaction |
Rheumatoid arthritis | Type III hypersensitivity reaction |
Type I diabetes mellitus | Type IV hypersensitivity reaction |
Rheumatic fever | Type II hypersensitivity reaction |
Cold sores are also known as | fever blisters |
Adults | herpes zoster (shingles) |
The Paul Bunnel test is positive with | infectious mononucleosis |
Have RNA that can be used by ribosomes of infected cells to replicate | + sense viruses |
The two structural patterns of viral capsids include | isocahedral and helical |
The structural pattern of the corona virus is | enveloped helical |
Many viruses possess an envelope that surrounds the | nucleocapsid |
The rhinovirus is a member of which family | PICO RNA Viridae |
The rhinovirus is DNA or RNA? | RNA |
The rhinovirus is double or single stranded? | Single stranded |
The rhinovirus is enveloped or non enveloped? | non-enveloped isocahedral |
The rhinovirus is isocahedral or spiral? | isocahedral |
The rhinovirus is most frequently isolated from patients suffering from what condition? | Common cold |
Staphylococci and streptococci are | Gram + |
Esherichia Coli are classified as | enteric, Gram - |
The tubercle bacillus belongs to the | acid |
Gram + bacteria stain | blue |
Gram | bacteria stain |
Staphylococcus are coagulase | Staph aureus is most virulent and coagulase positive. Other Staph's are coagulase negative. |
Streptococcus are _____. S. aureus is_______. Other Staphylococcus are_______ | catalase negative, coagulase/catalase positive, Coagulase negative. |
Neisseria gonorrhea is a | Gram - |
Corynebacterium diphtheria bacteria are | Gram + |
Treponema pallidum and Borrelia burgdorferi are examples of | spirochetes |
Eukaryotes with a defined nucleus surrounded by a nuclear membrane | Fungi |
unicellular fungi are called | yeasts |
Multicellular fungi are called | molds |
Protozoa and metazoa are classified as | parasites |