Deck 10: Bacterial Infections

Question 1

Our bodies harbor about how many bacteria?

A) 100,000
B) 1,000,000
C) 1,000,000,000
D) 1,000,000,000,000
E) The number is not known.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Give an example of an aerobe.

Answer 2

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Question 3

Give an example of a facultative anaerobe.

Answer 3

E. coli

Question 4

Give an example of an obligate anaerobe.

Question 5

This is an example of what general group of bacteria?

Question 6

This is an example of what general group of bacteria?

Question 7

This is an example of what general group of bacteria?

Question 8

Stained bacteria that are Gram-positive assume what hue?

Question 9

Stained bacteria that are Gram-negative assume what hue?

Question 10

Reports of antibiotic-resistant bacteria Staph. aureus emerged in what year?

A) 1945
B) 1946
C) 1947
D) 1948
E) 1949

Question 11

The three modes of antibiotic resistance occur via what processes?

Question 12

Which factor does not guide antibiotic cycling?

A) Patient populations (ICU, surgical units, etc.)
B) Location-specific incidence rates of infections
C) Location-specific bacterial ecology (e.g., inpatient or outpatient settings)
D) Antimicrobial-susceptibility profiles
E) Location-specific viral ecology

Question 13

What is the pathogen that causes tuberculosis?

Question 14

Of every 100 or so people who are exposed to TB, roughly what proportion will develop a primary form of the disease?

Question 15

Describe the transmission of TB.

Question 16

In what two populations is extrapulmonary TB especially prevalent?

Question 17

What test is extensively used to identify TB cases?

Question 18

Cholera continues to kill about how many children each year?

A) 1 million
B) 2 million
C) 3 million
D) 4 million
E) > 4 million

Question 19

List three common routes of cholera transmission.

Question 20

In cholera cases, diarrhea may exceed _______ of body weight during a 24- hour period.

Question 21

The first cholera pandemic began around what year?

Question 22

A novel V. cholerae strain, serotype O139, sparked epidemics throughout what countries in the mid-1990s?

A) India and Bangladesh
B) Singapore and Hong Kong
C) Peru and Colombia
D) Nigeria and Togo
E) None of these is correct.

Question 23

The Haitian cholera outbreak of 2010 followed what event in that country?

Question 24

About how many people were infected in the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak?

A) 100,000
B) 105,000
C) 110,000
D) 115,000
E) > 120,000

Question 25

By what route is cholera primarily transmitted?

A) Respiratory
B) Fecal-oral
C) Direct contact
D) Puncture wounds
E) All of these are correct.