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WorksheetsHemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Symptoms of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) is usually developed within ___ after the exposure to aerosolized urine, saliva or droppings of infected rodents
3 days
1-2 weeks
24 hours
In rare cases, the symptoms may develop up to how many weeks?
2 weeks
4 weeks
6 weeks
8 weeks
What is the primary strategy for preventing Hantavirus infection?
Antimosquito measures
Rodent control
Vitamin A treatment
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a group of clinically similar illnesses caused by hantaviruses from the family of what virus?
Family arenaviridae
Family filoviridae
Family bunyavaridae
To confirm the diagnosis of HFRS, a serological test such as _______is used to detect antibodies against the virus.
ELISA
Urinalysis
all of the choices
The mechanisms caused by Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (EHFV) are the following, except:
Acute renal failure
shock
Pulmonary fibrosis
This occurs in 4 to 5 days of the disease course and lasts 1-3 days. Main signs are shock nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
Oliguric phase
Hypotensive phase
Febrile phase
Diuretic phase
This is a clinical syndrome seen in the oliguric phase of the disease characterized by elevated concentrations of urea in the blood and associated with fluid, electrolyte, and hormone imbalances and metabolic abnormalities, which develop in parallel with deterioration of renal function
Anuria
Oliguria
Uremia
Azotemia
Mainstay treatment of care in patients with hantavirus infections
antiviral
surgery
supportive therapy
antibiotics
TRUE OR FALSE:
Puumala viruses cause the clinical form called nephropathia epidemica, prevalent in Scandinavia
True
False
