ID Transmission

Question 1

What are prions?

Answer 1

protein particles without a genome

Mad cow!

Question 2

What color does gram positive stain?

Negative?

Answer 2

Positive=Purple

Negative=Red

Question 3

What are the two groups fungi are separated into?

Answer 3

Yeasts (single cell organisms)

Molds (produce long, hollow, branching filaments-hyphae)

Question 4

What is epidemiology?

Answer 4

the study of factors, events, and circumstances that influence transmission of infectious diseases in human populations

Question 5

Portals of entry (how pathogens spread and enter body)

Answer 5

vector
penetration
direct contact
Ingestion
Inhalation

Question 6

What are exotoxins?

Answer 6

proteins released from the bacterial cell DURING growth

ENDOtoxins are NOT actively released during growth

Question 7

Combined effects of invasive factors, toxins, and antimiccrobial/inflammatory substances released by host cells mediate the ____ ____ of infectious diseases.

Answer 7

tissue damage

Question 8

What is an opportunistic infection?

Answer 8

an organism that rarely causes infection but does because the host is immunocompromised