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WorksheetsDiarrhea Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which of the following organisms causes non-inflammatory diarrhea?
Shigella
Enteroinvasive E. coli
Vibrio cholerae
Campylobacter jejuni
A child in a daycare center develops watery diarrhea without blood or fever. The most likely pathogen is:
Salmonella typhi
Rotavirus
EHEC
Shigella
Which of the following organisms shows “shooting star” motility under dark field microscopy?
E. coli
Vibrio cholerae
Shigella
Yersinia enterocolitica
Verotoxin is produced by which of the following E. coli types?
ETEC
EHEC
EIEC
EAEC
A major complication of EHEC infection is:
Typhoid fever
Pseudomembranous colitis
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Which of the following pathogens is transmitted through raw shellfish?
Norovirus
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Shigella
Clostridium difficile
Shigella causes dysentery by:
Producing heat-labile toxin
Stimulating cAMP
Inhibiting protein synthesis via 60S ribosome
Invasion of Peyer’s patches
Which of the following laboratory findings is typical of inflammatory diarrhea?
Watery stool with no PMNs
Rice-water stool
Stool positive for leukocytes and blood
No fever, clear stool
Norovirus is most likely to affect which group?
Infants under 1 year
Daycare toddlers
School-aged children and adults
Elderly in ICU
Which bacterial cause of diarrhea is part of normal gut flora and becomes pathogenic after antibiotic use?
EHEC
Campylobacter
Clostridium difficile
Vibrio cholerae
Which type of E. coli invades colonic mucosa and causes inflammatory diarrhea?
EHEC
EAEC
ETEC
EIEC
Rotavirus is classified as:
Enveloped ssRNA virus
Non-enveloped dsRNA virus
Non-enveloped dsDNA virus
Enveloped dsRNA virus
The medium used to culture Vibrio cholerae is:
MacConkey agar
Blood agar
TCBS agar
Lowenstein-Jensen
Which of the following features best distinguishes non-inflammatory from inflammatory diarrhea?
Fever and leukocytosis
Presence of toxin
Presence of PMNs in stool
Source of infection
Hemorrhagic colitis without fever is typically seen with:
ETEC
Salmonella
EHEC
Yersinia
