FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS - TULARAEMIA✅

Question 1

Francisella tularensis can cause epidemics among slaughterhouse workers.

Answer 1

F

Question 2

Hunters can be infected with Francisella tularensis during skinning of wild hares.

Answer 2

T

Question 3

Tularaemia is an occupational disease.

Answer 3

T

Question 4

Focal infection and necrosis can be seen in the parenchymal organs in the case of tularaemia.

Answer 4

T

Question 5

Clinical signs of tularaemia are mainly seen in cattle.

Answer 5

F

Question 6

The causative agent of tularaemia is Francisella tularensis

Answer 6

T

Question 7

Tularaemia can be found mainly on the southern hemisphere.

Answer 7

F

Question 8

Slide agglutination test cannot be used in the serodiagnostics of Tularaemia:

Answer 8

F

Question 9

Ticks are true vectors of tularaemia:

Answer 9

T

Question 10

Mouse inoculation is a frequently used method during isolation of Francisella tularensis from
pathological samples:

Answer 10

T

Question 11

Clinical signs of tularaemia can be seen only in hares

Answer 11

F

Question 12

Tularaemia is a fast and acute disease in mice:

Answer 12

T

Question 13

Tularemia does not occur in Europe:

Answer 13

F

Question 14

The reservoir host of the agent of tularemia is the hare:

Answer 14

T

Question 15

The agent of tularemia can be transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes and other blood sucking
arthropods

Answer 15

T

Question 16

Francisella tularensis is a fastidious bacterium species which needs special medium for
propogation:

Answer 16

T

Question 17

Rabbit is not susceptible to Francisella tularensis:

Answer 17

F

Question 18

Francisella tularensis is a soil microorganism:

Answer 18

F

Question 19

Francisella tularensis causes chronic infection in wild hare:

Answer 19

T

Question 20

Francisela tularensis subsp. Tularensis occurs in America:

Answer 20

T

Question 21

The agent of tularaemia can be transmitted by ticks

Answer 21

T

Question 22

Europe is free from Tularaemia

Answer 22

F

Question 23

Tularaemia can occur only in hares

Answer 23

F

Question 24

Tularaemia is a zoonosis

Answer 24

T

Question 25

Only hares are suscpetible to the agent of Tularaemia

Answer 25

F

Question 26

European Brown Hare is the reservoirs of the agent of tularaemia in Europe

Answer 26

T

Question 27

Francisella tularemia in humans is frequently caused through skin wounds.

Answer 27

T

Question 28

Tularaemia affects only sheep in Hungary.

Answer 28

F

Question 29

Ticks have an important role in transmission of tularaemia.

Answer 29

T

Question 30

Tularemia occurs only in America.

Answer 30

F

Question 31

Tularemia occurs frequently in hares.

Answer 31

T

Question 32

Francisella tularensis ssp. holartica is highly virulent.

Answer 32

F

Question 33

Francisella is a facultative pathogen.

Answer 33

F? because does not need PF?

Question 34

Francis blood agar can be used for its isolation.

Answer 34

T

Question 35

Tularaemia will cause more severe disease in lagomorph and rodents.

Answer 35

T

Question 36

Hunters can contract tularemia whilst skinning the animal.

Answer 36

T

Question 37

Tularaemia causes severe clinical signs in susceptible animals.

Answer 37

F BC they die so see only dead animals

Question 38

Tube agglutination is the best way to diagnose tularaemia.

Answer 38

T

Question 39

Encephalitis is the main clinical sign of tularemia in humans.

Answer 39

F

Question 40

There are differences in the virulence of the causative agents of tularemia

Answer 40

T

Question 41

Septicemia is part of the pathogenesis of tularemia.

Answer 41

T

Question 42

Mosquitoes are involved in spreading of tularemia.

Answer 42

T

Question 43

Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis is in Europe.

Answer 43

F

Question 44

Hares spread the bacteria Francisella with urine.

Answer 44

T

Question 45

Ticks play a role in maintaining the presence of tularaemia.

Answer 45

T

Question 46

Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica is the causative agent of tularaemia in Europe.

Answer 46

T

Question 47

European brown hare is the reservoir of the agent of tularaemia in Europe.

Answer 47

T

Question 48

Only hares are susceptible to the agent of tularaemia.

Answer 48

F

Question 49

Tularaemia is a zoonosis.

Answer 49

T

Question 50

Hamsters and mice are very susceptible to the agent of tularaemia.

Answer 50

T

Question 51

Ticks can transmit the agent of tularaemia.

Answer 51

T

Question 52

Sheep are regularly vaccinated to prevent tularaemia in Europe.

Answer 52

F

Question 53

Tularaemia is not a zoonosis.

Answer 53

F

Question 54

The agent of tularaemia is transmitted only by ticks.

Answer 54

F

Question 55

There are virulence variants of Francisella tularensis.

Answer 55

T

Question 56

Slide agglutination test is used to recognize tularaemia infection in live animals

Answer 56

T

Question 57

Farm animals in Europe are widely vaccinated against tularaemia

Answer 57

F

Question 58

Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis is the most frequent subspecies of the agent in Europe.

Answer 58

F

Question 59

Tularaemia can be frequently seen in cattle in Europe.

Answer 59

F

Question 60

Francisella tularensis can infect humans.

Answer 60

T

Question 61

Brown hares are susceptible to tularaemia.

Answer 61

T