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Diarrhea Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following organisms causes non-inflammatory diarrhea?

a)

Shigella

b)

Enteroinvasive E. coli

c)

Vibrio cholerae

d)

Campylobacter jejuni

2.

A child in a daycare center develops watery diarrhea without blood or fever. The most likely pathogen is:

a)

Salmonella typhi

b)

Rotavirus

c)

EHEC

d)

Shigella

3.

Which of the following organisms shows “shooting star” motility under dark field microscopy?

a)

E. coli

b)

Vibrio cholerae

c)

Shigella

d)

Yersinia enterocolitica

4.

Verotoxin is produced by which of the following E. coli types?

a)

ETEC

b)

EHEC

c)

EIEC

d)

EAEC

5.

A major complication of EHEC infection is:

a)

Typhoid fever

b)

Pseudomembranous colitis

c)

Hemolytic uremic syndrome

d)

Guillain-Barré syndrome

6.

Which of the following pathogens is transmitted through raw shellfish?

a)

Norovirus

b)

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

c)

Shigella

d)

Clostridium difficile

7.

Shigella causes dysentery by:

a)

Producing heat-labile toxin

b)

Stimulating cAMP

c)

Inhibiting protein synthesis via 60S ribosome

d)

Invasion of Peyer’s patches

8.

Which of the following laboratory findings is typical of inflammatory diarrhea?

a)

Watery stool with no PMNs

b)

Rice-water stool

c)

Stool positive for leukocytes and blood

d)

No fever, clear stool

9.

Norovirus is most likely to affect which group?

a)

Infants under 1 year

b)

Daycare toddlers

c)

School-aged children and adults

d)

Elderly in ICU

10.

Which bacterial cause of diarrhea is part of normal gut flora and becomes pathogenic after antibiotic use?

a)

EHEC

b)

Campylobacter

c)

Clostridium difficile

d)

Vibrio cholerae

11.

Which type of E. coli invades colonic mucosa and causes inflammatory diarrhea?

a)

EHEC

b)

EAEC

c)

ETEC

d)

EIEC

12.

Rotavirus is classified as:

a)

Enveloped ssRNA virus

b)

Non-enveloped dsRNA virus

c)

Non-enveloped dsDNA virus

d)

Enveloped dsRNA virus

13.

The medium used to culture Vibrio cholerae is:

a)

MacConkey agar

b)

Blood agar

c)

TCBS agar

d)

Lowenstein-Jensen

14.

Which of the following features best distinguishes non-inflammatory from inflammatory diarrhea?

a)

Fever and leukocytosis

b)

Presence of toxin

c)

Presence of PMNs in stool

d)

Source of infection

15.

Hemorrhagic colitis without fever is typically seen with:

a)

ETEC

b)

Salmonella

c)

EHEC

d)

Yersinia