Micro Chapter 9

Multiple Choice

Under which type of disease outbreak would COVID-19 fall?

• Endemic

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Clustered

Multiple Choice

Which type of disease outbreak would include diseases such as cholera, and dysentery occurring in communities with poor sanitation?

• Pandemic

• Endemic

• Epidemic

• Clustered

Multiple Choice

Which of the following refers to a disease outbreak that is constantly present is a community or region only affecting a small number of people?

• Pandemin

• Endemic

• Epidemic

• Globalization

Multiple Choice

Pandemics are now easily a world wide event due to what?

• Clustering

• Globalization

• Word of mouth

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

The public should be made aware of potential disease outbreaks.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following refers to the body's inability to fight off infection?

• Virulence

• Pathogenicity

• Resistance

• Susceptibility

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an arthropod vector?

• Mice

• Flies

• Fleas

• Ticks

Multiple Choice

Contact with an infected person includes which of the following?

• Touching

• Sneexing

• Coughing

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Indirect contact includes fomites and food preparation.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following terms refers to diseases that are transmissible to humans by animals?

• Zoonosis

• Rabies

• Lyme

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

Which of the following bacterial enzymes breaks down connective tissue and may cause tissue destruction as seen in gas gangrene?

• Leukocin

• Hyaluronidase

• Kinase

• Coagulase

Multiple Choice

Which system is the most accessible portal of entry for microbial pathogens?

• Integumentary

• GU

• GI

• Respiratory

Multiple Choice

What is the body's first line of defense against microbial pathogens?

• Sebaceous glands

• Skin

• Sweat glands

• Cilia

Multiple Choice

Systemic toxemia is also known as...

• Blood poisoning

• Shock

• Tetanus

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

All endotoxins produce the same sings and symptoms.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

After skin, what is the body's second line of defense against microbial pathogens?

• Mucus membranes

• Flagella

• Blood

• Phagocytosis

Multiple Choice

How many types of agranulocytes are there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

Macrophages that exit the bloodstream and travel to infected tissues are known as...

• Wandering macrophages

• Phagocytes

• WBCs

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

Specialized goblet cells line which of the following?

• GI tract

• GU tract

• Neither answer is correct

• Both answers are correct

Multiple Choice

Sebaceous and sweat glands provide another layer of protection in the skin.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How many classifications of interferons are there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

In what scenario can a fever be life threatening?

• Fevers are not life threatening

• Prolonged and high

• Short term and high

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Inflammation occurs in how many stages?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

What is the first stage of inflammation?

• Vasodilation

• Phagocytosis

• Tissue repair

• none of the above