Introduction to Foodborne Parasites

Question 1

Parasitism is a type of consumer-resource interaction like predation, but unlike predators, parasites kill their host and often live in or on them for a longer period of time.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A healthy animal can defend itself against pathogens at different stages in the infectious disease process.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The defense mechanism of host against helminths and larger multicellular organisms is to utilizes atopic and ADCC-dependent reactions, as well as granulomatous responses, to sequester and destroy deposited eggs.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Skin is the most common portal of entry of parasites through the ingestion of contaminated food, water, soiled fingers or fomites.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Even though most parasites feed on host species for nourishment, no parasites use some organisms as secondary hosts for the transmission of one primary host to another.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

The parasites exist in host-defense association to use the host as either habitat or a source of nourishment; however, the extent and duration of association might differ.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Many parasites, both protozoa and helminths, live inside the intestines. This location though do not limit the efficiency of immunological attack.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Parasites are all infectious agents that cause illness in different groups of living beings

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Parasites rely on living beings while fungi depend on dead particles for survival.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Parasitology is considered a necessary scientific discipline because of the continuous emergence of new parasites and parasitic diseases.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Animal parasites do not proliferate in foods.

Answer 11

True