Chapter 12.1 Review PP

Question 1

Disease caused by bacterium

Answer 1

Tuberculosis (TB)

Question 2

How many people carry TB?

Answer 2

2 billion

Question 3

New infection rate is what?

Answer 3

1 per second

Question 4

TB causes how many deaths per year?

Answer 4

2 million

Question 5

How many infections of TB are symptomless?

Answer 5

90%

Question 6

Another name for TB

Answer 6

consumption

Question 7

Consumptive “wasting” symptoms due to what?

Answer 7

Lung tissue damage

Question 8

Tuberculosis is transmitted how?

Answer 8

Through the air, from infected individuals

Question 9

A single sneeze releases how many droplets?

Answer 9

40,000

Question 10

Who is at the highest risk for TB infections?

Answer 10

1. young children
2. elderly
3. individuals in poor health due to poor nutrition, illness, drug abuse, or AIDS

Question 11

In the 19th and early 20th century how did they reduce the spread of TB?

Answer 11

long stays in rural sanatoriums with fresh air (isolated patients to reduce spread)

Question 12

In the 19402 what was revolutionized to treat TB?

Answer 12

antibiotics

Question 13

An individual is no longer on antibiotics after how many week of being on antibiotics?

Answer 13

2 weeks

Question 14

Treatment for TB must continue for how many months to eliminate the organism?

Answer 14

6 to 12

Question 15

Since the 1980s, scientists have noticed increases in what?

Answer 15

antibiotic resistance in TB

Question 16

In 2000-2004 TB cases: how many didn’t respond to the standard treatment ?

Answer 16

20%

Question 17

In 2000-2004 how many people were resistant to TB?

Answer 17

2%

Question 18

How many individuals with XDR-TB have died?

Answer 18

one third