Day 1 (Pre-Test)

Question 1

within the living body

Answer 1

In vivo

Question 2

The study of antibody-antigen reactors in vitro, using host serum for study

Answer 2

Serology

Question 3

The species of animal or plant that harbors a parasite and provides some metabolic resources to the parasitic species.

Answer 3

Host

Question 4

The presence of parasites in the blood (e.g. malaria schizonts in red blood cells)

Answer 4

Parasitemia

Question 5

The name given to an organism consisting of its appropriate genus and species title

Answer 5

Scientific name

Question 6

The establishment of arthropods on or within a host (including insects, ticks, and mites)

Answer 6

Infestation

Question 7

The clinical comparison of different diseases that exhibit similar symptoms; designed to determine which disease the patient has

Answer 7

Differential diagnosis

Question 8

The association of two different species of organism in which the smaller species lives on or within the other and has a metabolic dependence on the larger host species.

Answer 8

Parasitism

Question 9

The association of two different species of organisms in which one partner is benefited and the other is neither benefited nor injured.

Answer 9

Commensalism

Question 10

The association of two different species of organisms exhibiting metabolic dependence by their relationship

Answer 10

Symbiosis

Question 11

The animal in which a parasite passes its larval stage or asexual reproduction phase

Answer 11

Intermediate host

Question 12

The animal in which a parasite passes its adult existence, sexual reproductive phase, or both

Answer 12

Definitive host

Question 13

The ability to produce pathogenic changes

Answer 13

Pathogenicity

Question 14

Production of tissue changes or disease

Answer 14

Pathogenic

Question 15

Observable in a test tube or another nonliving system

Answer 15

In vitro

Question 16

Invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism (except arthropods), with accompanying reaction of the host tissues to the presence of the parasite

Answer 16

Infection

Question 17

Infection of a host other than the normal host species. A parasite may or may not continue full development in an ________

Answer 17

Accidental host

Question 18

Any arthropods or other living carriers that transport a pathogenic microorganism from an infected to a non infected host. a ______ may transmit a disease passively (mechanical vector) or may be an essential host in the life cycle of the pathogenic organism (biological vector)

Answer 18

Vectors

Question 19

An organism capable of living an independent or a parasitic existence; not an obligatory parasite, but potentially parasitic

Answer 19

Facultative parasite

Question 20

An animal that harbors a species of parasite that is also parasitic for humans and from which human may become infected

Answer 20

reservior host

Question 21

An animal that harbors a parasite that does not reproduce; it carries the parasite from one location to another to infect a new host.

Answer 21

Paratenic host

Question 22

A taxonomic category subordinate to family (and tribe) and superior to species, grouping those organisms that are alike in broad features but different in detail

Answer 22

Genus

Question 23

A taxonomic category subordinate to a genus. A ______ maintains its classification by not interbreeding with other species.

Answer 23

Species

Question 24

A parasite that cannot live apart from its host

Answer 24

Obligatory parasite

Question 25

A parasite established within the body of its host

Answer 25

Endoparasite

Question 26

A parasite established on or in the body of its host

Answer 26

Ectoparasite

Question 27

A host harboring a parasite but exhibiting no clinical signs or symptoms

Answer 27

Transport host

Question 28

A field of science dealing with the relationship of the various factors that determine the frequency and distribution of an infectious process or disease in a community

Answer 28

Epidemiology

Question 29

A disease involving a parasite that has accidentally infected a human; the normal host for the parasite is an animal

Answer 29

zoonosis

Question 30

A definite morbid process having a characteristic train of symptoms

Answer 30

Disease