PBS Infectious disease

What term describes an infection acquired at a hospital?

• Medical

• Pharmaceutical

• Nosocomial

• Pathogenic

A disease causing agent is called a

• Bug

• Pathogen

• Tumor

• Protinogen

Which pathogen is not a living thing?

• Prions

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Helminths

Vaccines can be used to prevent (certain types of) what category (or categories) of pathogens?

• Prions

• Viruses

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Helminths

Antibiotics can be used to treat what type of pathogens?

• Prions

• Bacteria

• Viruses

• Fungi

Tapeworms are what type of pathogen?

• Virus

• Bacteria

• Protist

• Helminth

The R-naught value is a measure of how ______________ a disease is

• Painful

• Contagious

• Virulent

• viral

Protist infections cause what type of symptoms?

• Brain damage

• Respiratory Problems

• digestive/intestinal issues

• Skin lesions and dark spots

Which of the following best describes bacteria?

• Unicellular, prokaryotic

• Unicellular, eukaryotic

• Multicellular, prokaryotic

• Multicellular, eukaryotic