YERSINIA Flashcards
Yersinia enterocolitica does not infect humans
F
Lesions caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis are always limited to the gut.
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause a generalised disease in hares.
T
Rodents and hares are susceptible to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause abortion in cattle
T
Focal inflammation and necrosis are postmortem lesions of the disease caused by Yersinia
pseudotuberculosis.
T
Only rodents are susceptible to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
F
Some Yersinia enterocolitica strains have cross reaction with brucellae.
T
Yersinia pestis is endemic in certain countries of Europe.
F
Yersinia enterocolitica can infect pigs.
T
Starvation and long, cold winter can predispose wild living animals to disease caused by
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis:
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis mainly causes respiratory clinical signs in cattle
F
yersinia pestis has been eradicated from earth:
F
yersinia enterocolitica generally infects hosts per os:
T
) fruits and vegetables can be the source of human infection by yersinia
T
the agent of the plague is transmitted by fleas:
T
yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a zoonotic agent:
T
diseases caused by yersinia pseudotuberculosis occur only in tropical areas
F
Diarrhoea is a common clinical sign of yersiniosis in pigs:
T
Carrier animals shed the agent of yersiniosis in the faeces
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause diarrhoea:
T
Yersinia pestis has been eradicated from Earth:
F
Plague is caused by Yersinia pestis
T
The Earth is free from plague.
F
Only rats are susceptible to plague.
F
Fleas can transmit plague.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can infect brown hares.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause septicaemia is rodents.
T
Farm animals are regularly vaccinated to prevent infection caused by Yersinia
pseudotuberculosis
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can infect humans.
T
Plague is caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
F
Arthropods are involved in spreading of plague
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis has a wide host range.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is not a zoonotic agent.
F
Yersinia enterocolitica can cause diarrhoea only in rodents
F
Yersinia enterocolitica can cause septicaemia.
T
Yersinia enterocolitica can cause lesions in the mesenteric lymph nodes
T
Yersinia enterocolitica can infect humans.
T
Plague occurs in the United States
T
Only humans are susceptible to the agent of plague
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis causes frequently clinical signs in rodents
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause enteritis.
T
Yersinia enterocolitica can infect only swine.
F
Yersinia enterocolitica can infect animals per os.
T
Yersinia enterocolitica is a zoonotic agent.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can infect rodents.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can colonize the gut.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis cause tuberculosis in wild living animals
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can infect only rodents.
F
Animals can be infected with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis mainly per os.
T
Starvation of wild living animals is a predisposing factor of yersiniosis
T
Infection with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is limited to the gut
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause septicaemia in rodents and hares.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause focal inflammation and necrosis in the parenchymal
organs.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can survive in the environment
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause disease only in rodents.
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis usually appears in tropical regions
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis generalizes in brown hares.
T
Yersinia enterocolitica does not infect humans.
F
The agent of yersiniosis cannot be cultured, PCR is the only way of its detection.
F
Yersiniosis is a zoonosis.
T
Yersiniosis of rodents can be caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
T
Carrier animals shed the agent of yersiniosis in the faces.
T
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause severe pleuropneumonia in rodents.
F
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can cause disease in hares
T
Infection caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is always limited to the gut
F
Primary replication sites of Y. enterocolitica are the tonsils and lymphoid tissue of gut
T
Y. enterocolitica has a narrow host range.
F
Y. enterocolitica can be treated with tetracyclines.
T
Swine is an important host of Y. enterocolitica.
T
Chronic lesions caused by Y. enterocolitica resemble the lesions of tuberculosis
F
Hare and chinchilla are most susceptible to Y. enterocolitica.
F
Rodentiosis is caused by Y. pseudotuberculosis.
T
Y. pseudotuberculosis is relatively resistant and replicates in the environment
T
Arthritis can occur in the chronic form of the Y. pseudotuberculosis.
T
Y. pseudotuberculosis is normally present in rodents
F
Y. pseudotuberculosis sporadically causes abortion in cattle.
T
Y. pseudotuberculosis can cause inflammatory necrosis lesions in rodent.
T
Disease caused by Y. pseudotuberculosis is common in rodents and hares
T
