| Question |
Answer |
| Which parasite produces an egg that looks like a football? |
Trichuris trichiura |
| Which parasite has eggs that hatch around the perianal area while you are asleep and causes relentless itching? |
Enterobius vermicularis |
| Which parasite has been known to cause bladder cancer in chronic cases? |
Schistosoma haematobium |
| Which parasite has suckers and forms cysts in the brain? |
Taenia solium |
| What do damaged viruses use to replicate? |
helper viruses |
| What parasitic group lives in permanent copulation and always has a smile? |
schistosoma |
| What ectoparasite has larva (aka. Maggots) that can dwell in a breast, eye, or leg? |
Flies that cause myiasis |
| What nematode causes tumor-like skin nodules to develop and causes a condition known as “river-blindness”? |
Onchocerca volvulus (vectored by the black fly)—“oncho” means tumor |
| What bacterium forms spores and infects wool sorters and causes black skin lesions? |
Bacillus anthrax |
| What roundworm is often associated with hospitals and immune-compromised people? |
Strongyloides stercoralis (just think that hospitals are supposed to be sterile) |
| What parasite can jump high and serve as a vector for tapeworm larvae? |
flea |
| What protozoan has a monkey face and is also known as beaver feaver? |
Giardia lamblia |
| Which fungus is considered part of the normal microbial flora of the mouth and vagina and can infection in immune-compomised people? |
Candida Albicans |
| What vector is present on the east coast and transits the borrelia bacterium that causes Lyme disease? |
tick |
| What viral disease deposits immune complex in the skin and forms a characteristic rash? |
Measles |
| What bacterium is considered normal flora and is a common source for food borne illness? |
E. coli |
| What parasite loves feces and attacks the intestinal lining and liver and has a karysome? |
Entamoeba histolytica |
| What virus requires an enzyme to write the genetic code in DNA from RNA? |
retro virus |
| What form of asexual reproduction, used by protozoans, involves a division into two equal parts? |
binary fission |
| What parasite uses the mosquito as a vector and produces larvae in blood or tissue? |
Filariasis |
| What vector can contain malarial parasites? |
Mosquito |
| What parasite forms cysts in brain and muscle? |
Tanea solium (kind of a repeat question) |
| What parasite lives in the crotch and causes pubic lice (aka. Crabs)? |
pubic louse |
| What parasite forms hydatid cysts? |
Echinococcus granulosus |
| What mechanism do parasites use to wall themselves from the host immune responses? |
the formation of a cyst |
| What type of transmission is passed from the healthcare provider to the patient? |
Iatrogenic |
| What virus can produce lesions on the lip, genitals, and brain? |
Herpes |
| What parasites have an oral sucker, as well as ovaries and testes (hermaphrodite)? |
Trematodes (aka. Flatworms) |
| What virus is known to attack cruise ships and cause violent diarrhea? |
Noro Virus (aka. Norwalk Virus) |
| If H5N1 (avian flu) is transmitted from a chicken to a farmer, what type of transmission is this? |
Zoonotic (specifically horizontal) |
| What are the sexual spores called that form in zygomycetes? |
Sporangiospores |
| What types of bacteria are unable to grow in the absence of oxygen? |
obligate aerobes |
| What is known is the tendency of a virus to infect a certain organ based on pH and oxygen tension among other factors? |
Tropism |
| When a mother transmits a disease to her fetus, what type of transmission is this? |
vertical transmission |
| What term refers to a disease remaining at a constant level of infection in a particular area? |
endemic |
| What long thin structure is present in guardia, trichimonas, and E. Coli? |
flagella |
| What type of transmission causes infection by flu, whooping cough, and tuberculosis? |
airborne transmission |
| What resistant structure is found in spore forming bacteria and fungi? |
spores |
| What types of viruses tend to replicate in the cytoplasm? |
RNA viruses (they have inclusion bodies) |
| What is the method of reproduction used by candida albicans? |
budding |
| What bacterial component causes shock in a patient infected with shigella and cholera? |
Endotoxin (LPS)-from gram negative bacteria |
| When you have a sudden increase in the number of cases of disease within a particular area, what is this called? |
an epidemic |
| What type of host was typhoid Mary? |
A carrier (she carried salmonella typheses) |
| What geometrical structure packages viral DNA components? |
capsid |
| What capsulated fungus is often seen in the lungs of HIV/AIDs patients? |
Cryptococcus neoformans |
| What test is used to diagnose diseases by detecting pathogen DNA? |
PCR |
| What fungus has a last name the means black? |
tinea nigra |
| What do defective viruses require to function? |
helper viruses |
| What parasite encysts the metacaria form in fish? |
Clonorchis sinensis Opisthorchis sinensis |
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