Bubonic plague

Question 1

what is the causative agent of the plague

Answer 1

gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis

Question 2

transmission of plague

Answer 2

getting bit by fleas who ate infected animals
eating infected animals
direct contact w infected persons/animals

Question 3

incubation period

Answer 3

1-6 days

Question 4

symptoms of bubonic

Answer 4

rapid onset of fever, painful swollen lymph nodes,

Question 5

symptoms of pneumonic

Answer 5

high fever, pneumonia, cough, bloody sputum, chills

Question 6

symptoms of septicemic

Answer 6

fever, prostration, hemorrhagic or thrombotic phenomena, progressing to necrosis

Question 7

what is the deadliest plague

Answer 7

pneumonic

Question 8

death rates of plagues of left untreated

Answer 8

30-60 % : bubonic
100% fr both pneumonic and septicemic

Question 9

diagnostic sample of the plague

Answer 9

isolation of bacteria from bubo aspirates, blood cultures or sputum cultures

Question 10

identification of plague

Answer 10

cultures
serologic test for Y pestis f1 antigen

Question 11

antibiotics of the plague

Answer 11

gentamicin
doxycycline
ciprofloxacin
levofloxacin

Question 12

vaccines for plague

Answer 12

killed whole cell vaccine
live attenuated vaccine
subunit vaccine
monoclonal antibodies