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Micro quiz 5
chapter 15 and 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Listeria monocytogenes, the causative agent of listeriosis, can pass through the blood-placenta barrier to infect a fetus. This type of transmission to the fetus is known as which of the following? | Vertical direct contact |
| Which of the following statements about quarantine is false? | Public health authorities can quarantine patients for any diseases |
| SARS first occurred in ___, before becoming a(n) ____ disease. Choose the correct pair from the following. | China, pandemic |
| Malarial disease in Brazil is an example of which type of disease? | endemic |
| Robert Koch was the first to conclusively determine the causative agent of which disease? | Anthrax |
| John Snow developed a detailed map (the "ghost map") to investigate the etiology of which disease? | cholera |
| A fruit fly lands on cow feces and then flies over to a bowl of watermelon being served at a farm picnic. The fruit fly in this example is which of the following? | mechanical vector |
| Tuberculosis is typically transmitted via which of the following? | air |
| Which term refers to the study of the geographic distribution of disease and its transmission? | epidemiology |
| Which agency monitors notifiable diseases in the united states? | Centers for disease control and prevention |
| Which of the following is an example of nosocomial disease? | obtaining a Pseudomonas respiratory infection during a recent visit to the hospital |
| Molecular Koch's postulates are used to identify which characteristic of pathogens? | virulence factor genes |
| Which of the following is the definition of pathogenicity? | the ability of a microbial agent to cause disease |
| Infected fleas that have the bacterium Yersinia pestis growing inside them are able to transmit plague. In this case, the infected fleas are best described as which of the following? | biological vectors |
| Which of the following most specifically describes a notifiable disease? | any disease of public health importance |
| Sexually transmitted diseases between sexually active partners are most commonly transmitted by which method? | horizontal direct contact |
| Florence Nightingale's 1958 book included graphs showing that many casualties she observed were due to which of the following? | preventable infectious diseases |
| Which of the following is not a fomite? | nurse |
| Which of the following is true about modern emerging diseases? | the occur in both developing and developed countries |
| Which researcher required that surgeons should use a 5% carbolic acid solution to clean surgical tools as a way to prevent the spread of disease? | Joseph Lister |
| Which term refers to the study of the cause of disease? | etiology |
| You wish to determine if a new drug can cure individuals with colds caused by rhinoviruses. Using a double-blind approach, 25 individuals get a sugar pill and 25 get the test drug. Which type of study was conducted? | experimental |
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