quick micro facts

Question 1

coxsackie a or b: herpangina?

Answer 1

A

Question 2

coxsackie a or b: pleurodynia?

Answer 2

B

Question 3

coxsackie a or b: viral myocarditis?

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Sheds for longer: noro or roto?

Answer 4

Norovirus

Question 5

Killed or live attenuated vaccine: Sabin?

Answer 5

Live - used in eradication campaigns of polio

Question 6

Classification of picornaviruses?

Answer 6

RNA, icosahedral, naked, ss, +

Question 7

Picornavirus include?

Answer 7

Rhinovirus and Enterovirus (poli, coxsackie, echovirus, and hep A)

Question 8

Causes undulating fevers?

Answer 8

Brucella. And causes abortions in cows!

Question 9

Vector for B. anthracis?

Answer 9

none! it is inhaled from dead carcasses or from direct contact

Question 10

Cause of bacillary angiomatosis

Answer 10

Cat-scratch disease –> B. Henselae

Question 11

4 clinical syndromes of arboviruses

Answer 11

Systemic febrile illness (Dengue)
Fever with arthritis
Encephalitis (EEE, West nile)
Hemorrhagic Fever (Yellow fever, Dengue fever)

Question 12

Japanese Encephalitis natural hosts are? transmitted by?

Answer 12

pigs and birds; mosquitos; we are dead end hosts

Question 13

EEE natural hosts?

Answer 13

birds