Infectious Diseases

Bacteria is often considered the cause of disease. It reproduces rapidly and asexually by __________. Bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics.

• binary fission

• mitosis

• meiosis

• budding

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

__________ is a bacteria that causes tetanus. It is found in ______. It releases toxins that build up in the body and causes severe muscle spasms such as lockjaw.

• Clostridium tetani, soil

• Streptococcus, water

• Escherichia coli, air

• Staphylococcus aureus, food

Plasmodium is a __________ that causes __________.

• bacterium, tuberculosis

• virus, influenza

• protozoan, malaria

• fungus, ringworm

Candida, thrush, and ringworm are all types of __________.

• bacteria

• viruses

• fungi

• protozoa

A rod-shaped, parasitic bacteria that lives in the tissues of ticks, fleas, and lice is __________.

• Rickettsia

• Bacillus

• Clostridium

• Streptococcus

Small, infectious agents that require a host for survival, produce immune responses in humans and are treated with antiviral drugs such as Acyclovir for herpes, chicken pox and shingles are __________.

• bacteria

• viruses

• fungi

• protozoa

_________________ are parasitic worm-like organisms that live inside the host.

• protozoan

• rickettsiae

• prion

• Helminths

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Prions are also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Gradually destroys brain cells, and it causes __________ in the brain. It is always __________, and there is no __________.

• holes, fatal, cure

• tumors, benign, treatment

• lesions, temporary, prevention

• scars, reversible, medication

Rifampin is an antibiotic that treats ____________.

• trichinosis

• tuberculosis

• schistosomiasis

• malaria

An ________________ ________________ originates from within the body and an ________________ infection originates outside the body.

• A. endogenous infection, exogenous

• B. exogenous infection, endogenous

• C. endogenous infection, chronic

• D. chronic infection, exogenous