Important People and Drugs/Govt Agencies/Population Terms

Question 1

pre-op disinfectant

Answer 1

iodine

Question 2

methycilline resistant staph aureus is ____; hospitals use ____ now

Answer 2

MRSA

vancomycin

Question 3

___ was used for newborn’s eyes; now ___ used

Answer 3

silver nitrate

erythromycin

Question 4

MCC of ophthalmia neonatorum is ____; ____ prevents it

Answer 4

gonorrhea

erythromycin (used to be silver nitrate)

Question 5

inhibits cell wall synthesis

Answer 5

penicillin

Question 6

for gram -

competes with PABA (Para-amino Benzoic acid)

Answer 6

sulfa

Question 7

for gram - and +; inhibits protein synthesis

considered “broad spectrum anti-biotic”

Answer 7

tetracycline

Question 8

adverse effect of tetracycline

Answer 8

turns teeth yellow

Question 9

developed humoral “Phagocytic” theory of immune response

Answer 9

Burnet/Metchinkoff

Question 10

discovered bacteriophage, an altered virus

Answer 10

Felix D’Herelle

Question 11

magic bullet- sulfa drugs; first treatment for Syphilis

Answer 11

Ehrlich

Question 12

discovered penicillin

Answer 12

Flemming

Question 13

Discovered the “virus”; tobacco virus was first

Answer 13

Iwanowski

Question 14

Developed smallpox vaccine

Answer 14

Jenner

Question 15

Proved bacteria “causes” disease; ANTHRAX (Woolsorters Disease) vaccine

Answer 15

Koch

Question 16

Classified Streptococcus

Answer 16

Rebecca Lancefield

Question 17

Developed first microscope, saw microorganisms

Answer 17

Leeuwenhoek

Question 18

Antisepsis, used carbolic acid to sterilize surgical instruments

Answer 18

Lister

Question 19

Father of Pathology, Father of Germ Theory

Rabies Vaccine

Answer 19

Pasteur

also pasteurization of wine and milk

Question 20

Discovered prions (cause mad cow)

Answer 20

Stanley Pyusner

Question 21

Discovered yellow fever which is spread by ______

Answer 21

Walter Reed

Ades Eqyptide Mosquite or Chicken Gunga

Question 22

Live polio vaccine, given orally

Answer 22

sabin

Question 23

dead polio vaccine, given by injection (done before live vaccine)

Answer 23

salk

Question 24

Came up with washing of hands before delivering baby which reduced PUERPERAL FEVER (childbed fever)

Answer 24

Semmelweis

Question 25

govt. agency for STATISTICS, part of US health services

Answer 25

Center for Disease Control (CDC)

Question 26

Monitors soil, air and water quality

Answer 26

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Question 27

Regulates health products released to public

Answer 27

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Question 28

Controls FDA, CDC, USPHS, OSHA

Answer 28

Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Question 29

Controls RESEARCH

Answer 29

National Institute of Health (NIH)

Question 30

Makes rules concerning occupational toxicity levels of hazardous materials

Answer 30

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Question 31

Responsible for milk and milk productions

Answer 31

US Dept of Agriculture USDA

Question 32

New disease or rapid increase of disease in incidence or geographic range

Answer 32

emerging

Question 33

small number of cases in specific location

Answer 33

endemic

Question 34

of NEW cases in a given time period

Answer 34

incidence

Question 35

TOTAL # of cases at particular point in time

Answer 35

prevalence

Question 36

first 4 steps of water purification

Answer 36

Primary Sewage Treatment

Question 37

step in water purification with aluminum trichloride added (clumps involved)

Answer 37

flocculation

Question 38

step in water purification when precipitate falls

Answer 38

sedimentation

Question 39

step in water purification that anaerobic bacteria added

Answer 39

sludge digestion

Question 40

sand filtration, aeration, chlorination, possible

Answer 40

secondary treatment in water purification

Question 41

step in water purification that kills remaining anaerobic bacteria by TRICKLING FILTER
– and that decreases BOD (biological oxygen demand)

Answer 41

aeration