DAT Infection control

Which subdiscipline was the focus of the “Golden Age of Microbiology”?

• Bacteriology
• Virology
• Mycology
• Entomology

Which microbiologist is credited for advancing the field of virology?

• Dmitri Ivanovsky
• Wendell Stanley

• Charles Darwin
• Isaac Newton

A microorganism is responsible for each disease, EXCEPT one. Which is the EXCEPTION?

• Rabies

• Chickenpox

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

• Food poisoning

Louis Pasteur is acknowledged for developing the processes of pasteurization and

• electron microscopy

• immunization

• discovery of penicillin
• handwashing

A virus does NOT contain which component?

• Nucleus
• Mitochondria
• Cytoplasm
• Cell wall

Cowpox provides cross-immunity for which disease?

• Measles
• Mumps
• Chickenpox
• Smallpox

Heating a liquid to kill bacteria is called pasteurization.

• True

• False

Microorganisms are more harmful than beneficial, to mankind

• True

• False

Each microorganism was once identified as an “animalcule,” EXCEPT one. Which is the EXCEPTION?

• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Protozoa
• Not provided

What is the first step of early method disease prevention

• handwashing

• pasteurization

• immunization

• presurgical phenol spray