Ch 18 Biomed

Question 1

Virulent

Answer 1

Capable of causing a serious disease

Question 2

Aerobes

Answer 2

A variety of bacteria that require oxygen to grow

Question 3

Anaerobes

Answer 3

Bacteria that grow in the absence of oxygen and are destroyed by oxygen

Question 4

Facultative anaerobes

Answer 4

Organisms that can grow in the presence or the absence of oxygen

Question 5

Protozoa

Answer 5

A single celled microscopic animal without a rigid cell wall

Question 6

Provirus

Answer 6

A hidden virus during the latency period

Question 7

Prions

Answer 7

Very tiny infectious agents that do not contain DNA or RNA

Question 8

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Answer 8

A rare chronic brain disease with onset in middle to late life

Question 9

Oral candidiasis

Answer 9

A yeast infection of the oral mucosa

Question 10

HBV

Answer 10

A virus necessary for co-infection with HDV

Question 11

HAV

Answer 11

A virus that is spread by the fecal oral route

Question 12

West Nile virus

Answer 12

Spread by mosquitoes

Question 13

H1N1 flu virus

Answer 13

A virus caused by A type viruses

Question 14

MRSA

Answer 14

A bacterium that is resistant to some antibiotics

Question 15

Why is microbiology important to the dental assistant

Answer 15

They gain and enhance understanding of infection control

Question 16

Who is the father of microbiology

Answer 16

Louis Pasteur

Question 17

Who was the first to record that micro organisms were responsible for hospital acquired infections

Answer 17

Joseph Lister

Question 18

Who is credited for discovering the rabies vaccination

Answer 18

Louis Pasteur

Question 19

What is the name of the staining process for separating bacteria

Answer 19

Gram test

Question 20

How are prions different from other micro organisms

Answer 20

They contain only protein and no nucleic acid

Question 21

What type of hepatitis is blood-borne

Answer 21

C, D, B

Question 22

Pontiac fever is a type of which disease

Answer 22

Legionnaires disease

Question 23

Bacteria cause what diseases

Answer 23

Tetanus, syphilis, TB

Question 24

What is the first oral indicator of syphilis

Answer 24

A chancre

Question 25

Herpes simplex type two is also known as what

Answer 25

Genital herpes

Question 26

Bacilli

Answer 26

Rod shaped (tuberculosis)

Question 27

Spirochetes

Answer 27

Spiral shaped capable of movement (lyme disease)

Question 28

Cocci

Answer 28

Round divide in two (pharyngitis)

Question 29

What are the five major groups of micro organisms

Answer 29

Bacteria, algae, protozoa, fungi, viruses, prions, rickettsiae

Question 30

What dictates a pathogen’s function

Answer 30

Structure/shape

Question 31

What cannot be growing on artificial culture media and cannot be destroyed by anabiotic drugs

Answer 31

Viruses