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EKU Micro Test 1

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T/F Infectious diseases are increasing causes of morbidity and mortality   True  
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STI are (epidemic, endemic or pandemic)   Pandemic  
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Where do nosocomial infections occur?   Hospitals, nursing facilities, and long term care facilities  
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What percent of people are expected to acquire a nosocomial infection?   5%  
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How many people each year in the US acquire Gonorrhea?   500k  
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How did lassa fever come to America?   Missionary Nurse from Africa  
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What temperature must beef be cooked to as regulated by the FED?   140  
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What is the most common portal of entry?   Respiratory and gasterointestial  
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What is a major complication with infectious diseases?   Drug resistance  
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What is the only infection that has been eradicated from the world population?   smallpox  
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West nile may have been this as conspiracy theorist?   It was a terrorist attack  
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Polio has how many serovars?   3  
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When was the last endemic case of small pox?   1977  
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When was small pox eradicated world wide?   1980  
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Microbes inhabiting a particular body site in most healthy persons   Normal or indigenous flora  
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microbes established at abody site and not affecting host in any adverse manner   commensal  
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microbes adventitiously present at body site and not capable of establishing it's self under present conditions   Transient  
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microbe isolated from a specimen but not actually present at that body site   contaminant  
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microbe producing pathological effects at body site in particular instance; viz. etiological agent of an infectious diseases   Pathogen  
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Body sites with normal flora   skin, conjunctiva, nasopharynx, oropharynx, upper intestine, large intestine and feces, lower urogenital tract  
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from the environment or another host   exogenous  
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from the host;s own indigenous flora   endogenous  
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What do endogenous sources of infections usually require to flourish in the body?   antecedent disease, traumatic injury, or compromised immune system  
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what is another name for an animal borne infection   zoonosis or zoonotic disease  
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arthropod borne diseases are also called   vector borne  
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What is a fomite?   any inanimate object that you come in contact with  
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pathogenisis by microbe means?   pathology and physiological dysfunction  
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what is pathology   damage done by organism  
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what is an unapperent or subclinical infection   overt or clinical disease  
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What does clinical disease mean   infection accompanied by onset of signs and symptoms  
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objective manifestations   signs  
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subjective manifestations   symptoms  
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combination of signs and symptoms associated with particular disease   syndrome  
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these are observable during a physical examination   signs  
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these are described by the patient during a physical examination   symptoms  
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the time between exposure to microbe and onset of signs and symptoms   incubation period  
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time between exposure and shedding microbe   latent period  
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time during which microbe is being shed   period of communicability  
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What is the typical course of an infection   prodrome, acute phase, defervescence, convalescence, resolution  
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In the typical course of an infection the stage in which there are vague or nonspecific symptoms is known as?   prodrome  
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In the typical course of an infection the stage in which there is a full clinical manifestation is known as   acute phase  
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In the typical course of an infection the stage in which the signs and symptoms are subsiding is known as   defervescense  
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In the typical course of an infection the period of recovery is known as   convalescence  
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In the typical course of an infection the period in which there is an absence of signs and symptoms with or without squealae is known as   resolution  
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What does the severity of an infection depend on?   numerous host and microbe factors  
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What are five modes of transmission of microbes   direct contact, airborne, foodborne, waterborne, arthropodborne  
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contamination of the skin and mucous membranes is what mode of transmission   direct contact  
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inhalation is what mode of transmission   airborne  
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ingestion is what mode of transmission   food or water borne  
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insect vector is what mode of transmission   arthropodborne  
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What is an example of direct contact transmission   STI  
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What is an example of Airborne transmission   influenza  
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What is an example of food or water borne transmission   salmonellosis  
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What is an example of arthropodborne transmission   lyme disease  
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what does communicable diseases mean?   Host to host transmission  
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A disease that is present at low but constant level in a population is known as   endemic  
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a disease that is increases in lever of disease about that usually found in population is known as   epidemic  
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a widespread disease in a region or world wide is known as   pandemic  
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What is the percentage of persons who contract a disease compared to those at risk (exposed)   attack rate  
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What is the percentage of those with disease who die from it   case fatality rate  
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what does CFR stand for   Case fatality rate  
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What is a noncommunicable disease   no host to host transmission  
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What are three examples of noncommunicable diseases   Caused by indigenous flora, acquired fro environment, ingestion of preformed microbe toxin  
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Defined as an infectious disease which regular and timely information on individual cases is considered for prevention and or control of the disease   notifiable infectious disease  
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How are notifiable infectious diseases reported   via the the publich health system to the CDC  
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If you wanted to get data on notifiable diseases where could you look   Morbidity and mortality weekly report (MMWR) and its various supplements, or KY epidemiologic notes and reports  
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Time and nature of onset, symptoms, social history, occupation, travel and contacts are collectively known as   Patient history  
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Examination of body symptoms and signs are known as   patient physical exam  
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working, differential and definitive are stages in which process   diagnosis  
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Working diagnosis is known as   likely nature and etiology  
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Differential diagnosis is known as   tow or more possible etiologies  
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definitive diagnosis is known as   exact etiology known  
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What normally determines definitive diagnosis   laboratory results  
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what are two aspects of treatment   symptomatic and specific  
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what does symptomatic mean   supportive  
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What is does specific mean in relation to treatment   antimicrobial drug targeting the etiologic agent  
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What is microscopy used for in bacteriology   gram and acid fast stains  
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What is microscopy used for in mycology   KOH and LPCB wet mounts  
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What is LPCB used for in mycology   Idenification  
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What is microscopy used for in parasitology   iodine wet mounts and trichrome smears  
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What is microscopy used for in virology   cells for cpe  
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In general what is the purpose of microscopy in microbiology   confirm specimen submitted is representative, establish the probability of infection, presumptively id agent, augment cultural identification of agent  
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When was the gram stain developed   1884  
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What is the max magnification of a brightfield microscope   1000x  
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what is the max resolution of a brightfield microscope   .2 micrometers  
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What is the magnification on the oculars of a bF microscope   10x wide field  
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What are the magnifications of the objectives on a BF microscope   4x, 10x, 40x and 100x  
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What is the 4x objective normally called   scanning objective  
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what is the 100x objective called   Oil immersion  
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What are two important adjustments when it comes to microscopy   interpupillary distant and dioptic adjustment  
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What is the differential stain for bacteria   gram stain  
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if a bacteria does not stain with aniline dyes what kind of bacteria are you working with   acid fast  
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what color do gram positive bacteria stain   purple  
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what color do gram negative bacteria stain   red/orange  
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what specimens is gram stains not applicable to   feces, throat swabs and whole blood  
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How do fungi normally stain   gram positive  
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What is the decolorizer used in gram staining   alcohol acetate mix  
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What does crystal violet stain   everything  
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what is the counter stain   safranin  
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what is the fixative in gram staining   methanol  
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What color will a neutrophil be   gram positive-purply  
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What is another name for the acid fast stain   kinyoun stain  
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who developed the acid fast stain   Robert koch  
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When was the acid fast stain developed   1884-before the gram stain  
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what is the primary stain in the AFS   carbofuchsin red  
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What is the decolorizer in the AFS   3% HCl in ethanol  
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What is the counter stain in AFS   methylene blue or brilliant green  
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microbes that don't decolorize with acid-alcohol and retain the primary stain are known as   acid fast  
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What is the AFS useful for in mycology   ascospores in molds and parasites (except cryptospoidium spp cyst form in stool)  
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What is normally diagnostic for parasites   wet mount microscopy  
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What are the two groups in fungi   moulds and yeast  
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What is the plural of genus   genera  
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what does the genus normally mean   descriptive term or latinized proper name  
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what is the plural of species   species  
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what does the species normally mean   descriptive term (epithet)  
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What do the descriptive terms normally describe in species name   characteristic, habitat or disease association  
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the genus name is always   capitalized  
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the species name is not used without the   genus name or initial  
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scientific names is always   italicized or underline even when it's genus alone  
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descendants of a single isolant are called   strain  
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distinctive biochemical or physiological (phenotypic) property   biovar  
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distinctive antigenic characteristics   serovar  
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osis and iasis normally be   condition or disease  
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common names are not   capitalized, italicized or underlined  
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