Test 3 Communicable Diseases

Question 1

The ability to produce a specific clinical reaction after infection occurs

Answer 1

Pathogenicity

Question 2

What are the methods of horizontal transmission

Answer 2

• direct/indirect contact
• airborne
• vector borne
• common vehicle- food water milk blood serum plasma

Question 3

Triage band red means

Answer 3

IMMEADIATELY ATTENTION

AIRWAY CIRCULATION OR BREATHING OBSTRUCTION

Question 4

The ability to produce a poisonous reaction

Answer 4

Toxicity

Question 5

The ability to penetrate and spread throughout tissue

Answer 5

Invasiveness

Question 7

The ability to enter and multiply in a host

Answer 7

Infectivity

Question 8

The ability to stimulate an immunological response

Answer 8

Antigenicity

Question 9

Types of immunity (Three)

Answer 9

Active immunity
Passive immunity
Herd immunity

Question 10

What type of immunity is the administration of an antigen so the host produces an antibody (like a childhood immunization)

Answer 10

ACTIVE IMMUNITY

Question 11

What type of immunity transfers antibodies from an immune individual to a non immune individual (mom to infant)

Answer 11

PASSIVE IMMUNITY

Question 12

Immunity of a group or community. Increases resistance in a group and decreases the spread of disease

Answer 12

HERD IMMUNITY

Question 13

What are the manifestations oh the inhalation of ricin?

Answer 13

Coughing

Chest tightening, dypsnea, nausea, achjng muscles, pulmonary edema, cyanosis,

Question 14

The ability to produce a severe pathological reaction

Answer 14

Virulence

Question 15

Vertical transmission

Answer 15

Passing infection from parent to offspring

Question 16

Horizontal transmission

Answer 16

Person to person spread of infection through

• direct/indirect contact
• airborne
• vector borne
• common vehicle- food water milk blood serum plasma

Question 17

Occurrence of disease in excess of normal expectations

Answer 17

Epidemic

Question 18

YELLO TRIAGE BAND MEANS

Answer 18

Secondary attention

Long bone fractures, partial or full thickness burns, major joint dislocation

Question 19

Presence of disease w/i a geographic area

Answer 19

Endemic

Question 20

What are the manifestations oh the ingestion of ricin?

Answer 20

GI bleed, vomiting, & bloody diarrhea, renal and hepatic failure, death

Question 21

What are the manifestations oh the injection of ricin?

Answer 21

Muscle &a lymph death, massive GI bleed, renal & hepatic failure

Question 22

Ricin

Answer 22

Poison made from waste from processing castor beans

Moves into cells and prevents protein synthesis

Question 23

Green triage band

Answer 23

Walking wounded but problems are less serious than those of red and yellow . Lacerations sprains fractured bones