INFECTIOUS DISEASE: VIRAL INFECTIONS

Question 1

What are “Capsid”?

Answer 1

A protein coat of a virus

Question 2

Explain how Viruses function.

Answer 2

• Attach, enters, releases genetic material to host cell

- Takes control, replicates virus, and remains dormant

Question 3

Vascular congestion and leakage of exudate, is what type of the body’s response to a viral infection?

Answer 3

Inflammatory Response

Question 4

A collection of lymphocytes in infected tissue, is what type of the body’s response to a viral infection?

Answer 4

Immune Response

Question 5

Which Childhood Viral Infection will affect the nervous system, leading to paralysis?

Answer 5

Poliomyelitis

Question 6

Describe Rubeola/Measles.

Answer 6

Respiratory infection with flu like symptoms

Question 7

What is the primary effect of Rubella/German Measles?

Answer 7

Skin and lymph nodes

Question 8

Which Childhood Viral Infection will affect the parotid glands?

Answer 8

Mumps

Question 9

What does Varicella-Zoster Virus cause?

Answer 9

Chicken Pox

Question 10

Describe Zona/Herpes-Zoster.

Answer 10

• aka. Shingles
• after chicken pox
• dormant in Dorsal Root Ganglia