PICORNAVIRUSES

Question 1

PICORNAVIRUS

hand-foot mouth viruses that cause hand-foot mouth disease are (_________ and ________)

Answer 1

enterovirus 71
coxsackie A16

Question 2

POLIOVIRUSES
In addition to pathologic changes in the nervous system, there may be _______, ________. and _____________

Answer 2

myocarditis
lymphatic hyperplasia
ulceration of peyer’s patches

Question 3

POLIOVIRUSES
_______ is the most common of disease. the patient has only minor illness, characterized by fever, malaise, drowsiness, headache, nausea, vomiting, constipation, and sore throat

Answer 3

mild disease

Question 4

POLIOVIRUSES
in addition to the symptoms and signs listed in the preceding paragraph, the patient with the nonparalytic form has stiffness and pain in the back and neck

Answer 4

nonparalytic (aseptic meningitis)

Question 5

POLIOVIRUS
flaccid paralysis resulting from lower motor neuron damage.

Answer 5

paralytic poliomyelitis