Ch 22: Online 1

Question 1

Protozoan is to cyst as bacterium is to what?

Answer 1

Spore

Question 2

What provides bacterial resistance to phagocytosis?

Answer 2

A capsule

Question 3

Under the microscope, gram positive bacilli looks like what?

Answer 3

Purple rods

Question 4

Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics as a result of what?

Answer 4

Genetic mutations

Question 5

What is it called when the person shows no symptoms of an infection?

Answer 5

• Inapparent
• Asymptomatic
• Subclinical

Question 6

What is made possible by a primary infection?

Answer 6

Secondary infection

Question 7

What is caused by a normally nonpathogenic species in a new body site?

Answer 7

Opportunistic infection

Question 8

Hospital-acquired infections are called what?

Answer 8

Nosocomial infection

Question 9

What is the vector of Lyme disease?

Answer 9

Tick

Question 10

Body lice are vectors of what?

Answer 10

Epidemic typhus

Question 11

Fleas are vectors of what?

Answer 11

Plague and endemic typhus

Question 12

Ringworm is a type of what?

Answer 12

Superficial mycosis

Question 13

Shingles is a type of what?

Answer 13

Viral reactivation

Question 14

Trichinosis is a type of what?

Answer 14

Worm infestation of muscles

Question 15

Giardiasis is a type of what?

Answer 15

Protozoan intestinal infection