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Disease Detectives Grab Bag O' Terms

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Proportion of persons clinically diagnosed with a disease

who get severely ill or die is a measure of

a)

Virulence

b)

Pathogenicity

c)

Infectivity

d)

Incidence

2.

The occurrence of a disease or condition that damages health and quality of life

is known as

(a)  

3.
What does mortality mean?
a)
Death
b)
Health
c)
Illness
d)
Physically able
4.

Diseases that strike people whose immune systems are weakened as a result of an existing condition such as HIV infection are known as

a)
Opportunistic diseases
b)
Zoonotic diseases
c)

Endemic diseases

d)

Virulent diseases

5.
These are infectious diseases of animals such as rabies, plague and psittacosis, which can cause disease when transmitted from animals to humans...
a)
Opportunistic diseases
b)
Noncommunicable diseases
c)
Communicable diseases
d)
Zoonotic diseases
6.

Based on Koch’s postulates, which would not be a criterion for establishing causation of an illness?

a)

microbe able to be isolated and cultured

b)

individual is asymptomatic after some treatment

c)

cultured microbe is identical to the original microbe causing infection

d)

in healthy individuals microbe is absent, but present in all infected individuals

7.

What do MRSA and some strains of TB have in common?

a)

Both are common to infect the upper pharynx

b)

Both most commonly affect newborns and infants

c)

Both are resistent to modern antibiotics

8.

Which of the following statistics would describe the strong virulence of a microorganism?

a)

When exposed to E. coli strain O157:17, 60% of people will become sick

b)

Y. pestis causes severe illness and death in 100% of individuals if untreated.

c)

50% of the population is a carrier of S. aureus

d)

25% of people exposed to tuberculosis will become infected

9.

St. Clary’s Medical Center has received seven cases of measles in the past two days. The healthcare professionals employed there report the measles cases to the correct health agency. This is an example of:

a)

Passive surveillance

b)

Helicopter surveillance

c)

Syndromic Surveillance

d)

Active Surveillance

10.

The normal presence of non-pathogenic E. coli in our gut is an example of which of the following?

a)

Mutualism

b)

Parasitism

c)

Commensalism

d)

Infection

11.
A type of descriptive study that describes characteristics of number of patients with a given disease.
a)
case control
b)
case series
c)
case report study
d)
ecologic study
12.
An aggregation of cases of a disease or other health-related condition, particularly cancer and birth defects, which are closely grouped in time and place.
a)
outbreak
b)
surveillance report
c)
cluster
d)
nucleus
13.
Any trend in the collection, analysis, interpretation, publication, or review of data that can lead to conclusions that are systematically different from the truth
a)
confounding
b)
slant
c)
falsification
d)
bias
14.
This type of bias can occur when there are differential choices  of subjects by disease and/or risk factor characteristics.
a)
selection bias
b)
recall bias
c)
experimenter bias
d)
information bias
15.
Statistical relationship between two or more events, characteristics, or other variables.  
a)
association
b)
causality
c)
measure of dispersion
d)
relative risk
16.
A period of subclinical or unapparent pathologic changes following exposure, ending with the onset of symptoms of chronic disease.
a)
exposure period
b)
latency period or incubation period
c)
index case period
d)
carrier period
17.
Any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological or psychological well-being.
a)
morbidity
b)
mortality
c)
pathogenicity
d)
obesity
18.
The type of bias can occur when interviewers who are aware of the identity of subjects or factors of interest (e.g., case or control) and collect information unevenly between subjects.
a)
information bias
b)
experimenter bias
c)
recall bias
d)
political party bias
19.
The number of deaths attributed to a particular disease during a specified time period divided by the number of new cases of that disease identified during the same time period.
a)
death-to-case ratio
b)
mortality rate
c)
morbidity rate
d)
natality rate
20.
Immunity conferred by an antibody produced in another host and acquired naturally by an infant from its mother or artificially by administration of an antibody-containing preparation (antiserum or immune globulin).
a)
passive immunity
b)
active immunity
c)
herd immunity
d)
neonatal immunity
21.
Index case is
a)
The first case to come to the attention of a disease investigator
b)
the first case chronologically (occurring first)
c)
the most notable case
d)
the model case
22.
The hypothesis, to be adopted if the null hypothesis proves implausible, in which exposure IS associated with disease.
a)
alternative hypothesis
b)
original hypothesis
c)
testable hypothesis
d)
experimental hypothesis
23.
Epidemiology is concerned with the __________ and __________ of health events in a population:
a)
frequency, pattern
b)
frequency, determinant
c)
pattern, determinant
d)
determinant, spread
24.
What does the acronym CDR stand for?
a)
Crude Death Rate
b)

Causal Determinant

Rate

c)

Center for Disease

Remediation

d)
Cool Dude Ravi
25.
Recommend that close contacts of a child recently reported with meningococcal meningitis receive Rifampin is an example of 
a)
Distribution
b)
Determinants
c)
Application
26.
The birth rate minus the death rate.
a)
Infant Mortality Rate
b)
Natural Increase Rate
c)
Arithmetic Density
d)
Fertility Rate
27.
The average number of children a woman of childbearing years will have in her lifetime.
a)
Infant Mortality Rate
b)
Natural Increase Rate
c)
Arithmetic Density
d)
Fertility Rate
28.
Diseases that appear for the first time are known as __________ diseases.
a)
pathogens
b)
resistance
c)
vectors
d)
emerging
29.
The probability that a hazard will cause harm is known as _______.
a)
sensitive
b)
risk
c)
threshold
d)
response
30.
If the measure of association (OR or RR) is approximately 1, exposure is not associated with the disease
a)
True
b)
False
31.
A p value less than or equal to 0.01 means that your results are
a)
Not significant
b)
Significant
c)
Very Significant
32.

The ability of a pathogen to establish an infection when a susceptible

host is exposed to it is call its

a)

Virulence

b)

Infectivity

c)

Pathogenicity

d)

Infectability

33.

The measure of the ability of a pathogen to cause

clinical illness when in a host is known as its

a)

Virulence

b)

Pathogenicity

c)

Infectivity

d)

Infectability

34.
_____ is a health determinant that keeps a person safe from an illness and/or assists in improving health.
a)
Immunity
b)
Risk factor
c)
Vaccine
d)
Protective factor

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