Chapter 14 Worksheet

Question 1

The enzyme that separates
Staphylococcus aureus from all other Staphylococcus species.

Answer 1

Coagulase

Question 2

Digest the collagen: structural
protein the connective tissue

Answer 2

Collagenase

Question 3

Proteins that allow adhesion in
viruses

Answer 3

Ligands

Question 4

Digest the glue that cements cell
together.

Answer 4

Hyaluronidase

Question 5

Toxin that act on red blood
cells/hemoglobin

Answer 5

Hemotoxins

Question 6

Allows for bacteria to form clots
that camouflage them

Answer 6

Coagulase

Question 7

Specific Lipoprotein or Glycoprotein
on the bacteria surface that are adhesins.

Answer 7

Fimbriae

Question 8

These bacterial surface proteins can
offer attachment and block phagocytosis.

Answer 8

Capsules

Question 9

Toxin that act on the intestines

Answer 9

Enterotoxins

Question 10

Substances that would make a
bacteria pyogenic

Answer 10

Leukocidins

Question 11

Substances that would make you
run a fever

Answer 11

Pyrogens

Question 12

The alpha toxin is an example of
this toxin.

Answer 12

Erythrogenic toxin

Question 13

Short, bristle like structures that
allow for adhesion

Answer 13

Fimbriae

Question 14

Which of the choices are
antiphagocytic factors

Answer 14

Capsules, M protein, Leukocidins

Question 15

Digest clots that the host creates or
their own clot

Answer 15

Kinases

Question 16

Toxins that act on the nervous
system

Answer 16

Neurotoxins

Question 17

Which of the choices are
adhesin factors

Answer 17

Ligands, Fimbriae, Spikes, M protein, Capsules

Question 18

This toxin causes an over reaction of
the host immune system

Answer 18

Neurotoxins

Question 19

Eating contaminated food at a
restaurant

Answer 19

Vehicle Transmission - Food

Question 20

The transmission of malaria

Answer 20

Vector - Biological

Question 21

Transmitted germs through kissing
another.

Answer 21

Direct Contact – Horizontal

Question 22

Sneezing on another person, less
than 1 meter away and giving them a cold

Answer 22

Droplet Transmission

Question 23

Sneezing into your hand, and
touching a door know, and second person

Answer 23

Indirect Contact – Fomite

Question 24

Drinking contaminated water
downstream from a cholera outbreak

Answer 24

Vehicle Transmission - Water

Question 25

The story of transmission by
Typhoid Mary

Answer 25

Vehicle Transmission - Food

Question 26

Shaking hands with another.

Answer 26

Direct Contact – Horizontal

Question 27

Getting HIV from a blood
splattering on you from an injured person (you are too close)

Answer 27

Direct Contact – Horizontal

Question 28

Getting HIV from a blood
transfusion

Answer 28

Indirect Contact – Fomite

Question 29

Getting HIV from sharing needles

Answer 29

Indirect Contact – Fomite

Question 30

Getting HIV from unprotect sex

Answer 30

Direct Contact – Horizontal

Question 31

Getting HIV as a baby in the womb
of an infected mother

Answer 31

Direct Contact – Vertical

Question 32

Getting rabies from a raccoon

Answer 32

Direct Contact – Horizontal

Question 33

Getting sick from cockroaches and
flies crawling around on your dishes with fecal matter on their feet.

Answer 33

Vector - Mechanical

Question 34

Sneezing on an airplane and the
passengers in the next compartment get sick.

Answer 34

Vehicle Transmission - Air

Question 35

Getting botulism from eating Honey

Answer 35

Vehicle Transmission - Food

Question 36

Getting tetanus from stepping on a
rusty nail.

Answer 36

Indirect Contact – Fomite

Question 37

Vectors that are not necessary to the
life cycle of the pathogen

Answer 37

Vector - Mechanical

Question 38

Vectors that are necessary to the
life cycle of the pathogen

Answer 38

Vector - Biological