Quiz 3.1.2 Review - Agents of Disease

Which of the following infectious agents can be prevented with vaccines?

• bacteria

• protists

• helminths

• viruses

According to the table shown here, the most likely infectious agent is a

• protist.

• bacterium.

• helminth.

• virus.

A patient is infected with a pathogen that has given her a skin rash. The patient puts cream on her foot to treat her "athlete's foot". This patient most likely has a type of

• virus

• prion

• bacteria

• fungus

Bacterial infections are most successfully treated with

• deworming medication.

• antibiotics.

• vaccines.

• antiparasitic medication.

This type of pathogen is a nonliving form of protein that can infect the brain and currently has no known cure.

• viruses

• bacteria

• prions

• helminths

Agents of disease are

• symptoms of a disease.

• spies.

• organisms that cause disease.

• pathogens.

Which of the following is not one of the 6 major types of infectious disease agents?

• bacteria

• viruses

• cancer

• protists

A disorder of structure or function in an organism that results in specific signs or symptoms, may affect a specific location in the organism, and is not a direct result of physical injury is called

• a disease.

• an infection.

• a host.

• a pathogen.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

_________________ are any of a large group of nonliving, submicroscopic infective agents that typically comprise an RNA or DNA core of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat.

• Helminths

• Bacteria

• Protists

• Viruses

Infectious means

• inherited.

• contracted or caught.

• suffered.

• developed.