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WorksheetsMicro SU Test 4
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 27mins
Smallpox has been eradicated in the world but the virus is still stored in two labs. In order to prevent the escape of the virus, would you expect the lab to be kept at lower or higher air pressure than the hallway?
Lower
Higher
The same
Which of the following describes an antiseptic process?
Autoclaving glass pipettes after use
Cleaning a toilet bowl with bleach
Applying antibiotic ointment to a cut
Preparing raw meat separate from vegetables
What is the correct order of most resistant to least resistant to methods of control?
Gram negative bacteria, viruses without envelopes, fungi, naked viruses, protozoa, mycobacteria, endospores
Endospores, mycobacteria, gram negative bacteria, fungi, viruses without envelopes, gram positive bacteria, naked viruses
Naked viruses, gram positive bacteria, viruses without envelopes, fungi, gram negative bacteria, mycobacteria, endospores
Gram positive bacteria, viruses, fungi, mycobacteria, endospores, gram negative bacteria
The a large amount of microbial growth would generally _________ the effectiveness of a method of control.
Inhibit
Enhance
Not change
You want to make your own hand sanitizer. You have some aloe vera gel but must go out to buy the alcohol portion. In the store, there are the following alcohol concentrations available. Which should you use for your homemade hand sanitizer?
95% alcohol solution
50% alcohol solution
15% alcohol solution
70% alcohol solution
Microbes are considered dead when they can no longer reproduce under conditions that would normally support their reproduction.
True
False
What is the D-value of this particular graph?
2 minutes
4 minutes
6 minutes
102.5
100
Most chemical cleaners are more effective at what pH?
<7
neutral pH
>7
Rubbing your hands together while washing with plain water would be a
Chemical method of control
Physical method of control
Both a chemical and physical method of control
Hydrogen peroxide is most effective in its liquid form and on living tissue like a cut or scrape.
True
False
Halogens like iodine work by
Binding to enzymes and disrupting their function
Coagulating proteins and enzymes
Disrupting cell membranes
Oxidizing proteins and other cell components
Anionic detergents like hand soap are considered disinfectants because of the way that they surround hydrophobic molecules and make them soluble in water.
True
False
Ozone is primarily used as a disinfectant for what?
Water
Lab equipment
Food packaging
Surgical rooms
Adding nitrite to a food preserves it by
Inhibiting metabolism
Damaging the cell membrane
Inhibiting Clostridium botulinum endospore germination
Chlorine bleach can destroy all bacteria and fungi, including endospores.
True
False
Phenolics are found in what common household cleaner?
Clorox bleach
Dawn dish soap
Lysol
Drano drain cleaner
Select all chemical methods of control
Heavy metal
Anionic detergents
Ozone
Depth filters
Lyophilization
Autoclaving uses what kind of control method?
Dry heat
Sterilizing gas
UV radiation
Moist heat
Gamma radiation
Freezing kills up to ____ of microbes
25%
90%
50%
10%
In food spoilage, the microbes we are most concerned about are
Acidophiles
Basophiles
Psychrotrophs
Thermophiles
Ionizing radiation is effective against endospores but may or may not kill viruses.
True
False
Some fish have formed interspecies relationships where a larger "client" fish is cleaned of bacteria and parasites by a smaller "cleaner fish." What best describes this relationship?
Mutualism
Cooperation
Amensalism
Commensalism
Parasitism
A patient comes in complaining of abdominal pain and nausea. While the patient is being examined, they vomit. You run a fecal analysis and find an abnormal amount of E. coli in their stool. You also check their temperature and they have a fever of 100.5 ° . Which of these things are signs?
E. coli in stool
Fever
Pain
Nausea
Vomitting
Around 80% of adults have oral herpes, however, most only get cold sores periodically. This disease would be classified as a
Latent infection
Chronic infection
Slow infection
COVID19 is not only a communicable disease but is also a contagious disease.
True
False
A non digestible food item that you ingest for the purpose of stimulating the growth of desirable bacteria in the colon would be classified as
Prebiotic
Probiotic
Antibiotic
Dysbiotic
In this graph, what is the endemic level of this disease?
It isn't endemic
<1
November through December
24
What terms describe the current COVID19 outbreak?
Endemic
Pandemic
Common-source epidemic
Propagated epidemic
Sporadic
COVID19 has a period of up to 2 weeks where someone can be infected without knowing it. This kind of carrier would be a(n)
Incubatory carrier
Active carrier
Convalescent carrier
Healthy carrier
Mosquitoes spread malaria from person to person and can be affected by the parasite themselves. This would make them what kind of vector?
External transmission
Harborage transmission
Biologic transmission
Microorganisms use active and passive escape equally to leave the host.
True
False
Quarantine falls under what control method of epidemics?
Reducing the source or reservoir of infection
Breaking the connection between the source and the susceptible population
Reducing the number of susceptible individuals
Which of these is not a reason for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases?
Genetically modified organisms
Movement of the world's population into cities
Ease of international travel
Natural and man made disasters like hurricanes and war
All of these are a reason
Nosocomial infections are a concern because
Patients in hospitals are generally more immunocompromised
Biofilms can harbor antibiotic resistant bacteria
Doctors and nurses sometimes do not follow proper antisceptic procedure
All of the above
Which of these would not contribute to virulence of a disease?
Airborne transmission
Resistance of the pathogen to extreme temperatures
Ability to live in multiple species of host
Limited host receptors
During what phase of a pathogen's infection could a disease turn into bacteremia?
Transport to host
Attachment
Colonization
Invasion of the pathogen
Growth and multiplication
Endotoxins are only found in gram positive bacteria
True
False
Diphtheria is an example of what type of toxin
Endotoxin
Pore forming exotoxin
AB exotoxin
Phospholipase
Superantigen
Endotoxins cause general systemic effects while exotoxins can often target specific tissues or organs.
True
False
Complement is a part of innate immunity and cannot adapt to new pathogens.
True
False
Which of these is not a possible outcome of the complement system?
Inflamation
Cytolysis
Opsonization
All of the above are possible outcomes
Which of these is not a method of immune response evasion that bacteria can employ?
Capsules
Lengthened O-side chains
Proteins that prevent adherence of phagocytes
Survival inside of phagocytes
Sporulation to "hide out" until the immune system has moved on
Moderna just recently moved into phase III of their COVID19 vaccine trial. The vaccine works by using human cellular machinery to create antigens for the immune system to recognize. What type of vaccine is this?
Whole organism
Attenuated
Acellular or subunit
DNA
Recombinant vector
A vaccine that contains an inactivated exotoxin would be considered a
Whole dead organism vaccine
Attenuated vaccine
Surface antigen vaccine
Toxoid vaccine
Immunity acquired by the administration of an antivenom would be considered (pick 2)
Active
Passive
Natural
Artificial
Who is credited with the discovery of vaccines?
John Snow
Lady Montagu
Edward Jenner
Marius LePual
Penicillin was originally isolated from a ________ species
Bacteria
Protozoa
Fungi
Animal
An antibiotic includes both drugs that interfere with the growth of microbes in a host and substances produced by microbes that inhibit the growth of another species of microbe.
True
False
Which class of antibiotic would be least harmful to eukaryotic cells?
Penicillins inhibiting cell wall synthesis
Streptomycin causing mRNA to be misread on the 30s ribosome subunit
Quinolones inhibiting nucleic acid replication
Polymyxin B disrupting the plasma membrane
Sulfonamides work by inhibiting folic acid synthesis and are thus narrow spectrum drugs.
True
False
What does this antibiotic disc sensitivity test tell you about the use of these two antibiotics at the same time?
They would work well together
They would not work well together
They would have no effect on each other
