8.L.1 NC Microbiology Unit Assessment

Spread of a disease in a local population where a large number of people get sick

• endemic

• pandemic

• systemic

• epidemic

Easily spread with in a population

• infectious

• contagious

• non-contagious

• non-infectious

A medicine used to treat virus illnesses.

• anti-viral

• antibiotics

• anti-fungal

• pesticides

A medicine specifically designed to kill bacteria; good and bad bacteria in the body

• anti-viral

• vaccine

• anti-fungal

• antibiotics

Virus, bacteria, or other microorganism that causes disease

• protozoa

• pathogen

• antibiotic

• anti-viral

To resist, recover, or prevent a disease from entering the body or being able to attack from within the body

• immunity

• vaccine

• antibiotic

• anti-viral

Organism from which a parasite takes food, shelter, and the ability to reproduce

• carrier

• host

• vector

• virus

A person that can pass a pathogen to another without ever having symptoms them-self

• virus

• carrier

• vector

• host

An animal that passes a pathogen from the host to another organism without getting sick itself; rats, ticks, mosquitoes, fleas

• host

• carrier

• virus

• vector

Spread of a disease that requires the disease to spread into two or more continents where a large number people get sick

• epidemic

• endemic

• pandemic

• systemic