Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
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- 1.Whooping cough is a prolonged illness caused by toxins produced by ___________ bacteria.
- 2.B. pertussis is a strictly human pathogen.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Whooping cough is most communicable at the __________ phase.
- A.
Catarrhal
- B.
Paroxysmal
- C.
Convalescent
- 4.Influenza ____ has the greatest virulence and epidemic spread.
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- 5.Influenza A and B have ___ segments of negative-sense , single stranded RNA, while Influenza C has ___ segments.
- A.
7,8
- B.
8,9
- C.
8,7
- D.
7,9
- 6.____________ has 15 recognized subtypes and is important for viral attachment.
- A.
Neuraminidase
- B.
Hemagglutinin
- C.
Glycoprotein
- D.
Cilia
- 7._________ is a "slower process" that may result in as little as a single mutation in the viral RNA, occuring every few years in influenza A.
- A.
Antigenic shift
- B.
Antigenic drift
- C.
Bottleneck effect
- 8.H1N1 receptors are predominantly found in the ___________ .
- A.
Lower portion of the lung
- B.
Upper portion of the respiratory tract
- C.
Lower portion of the respiratory tract
- D.
Upper portion of the lung
- 9.The influenza virus causes no significant GI involvment.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.The most common mode of transmission for influenza virus is ________________.
- A.
Fecal-oral route
- B.
Indirect airborne inhalation
- C.
Direct droplet spread
- D.
Direct physical contact
- 11.Avian influenza viruses (H5N1) can retain infectivity for __________ outside the host.
- A.
12-24hours
- B.
A few days
- C.
Several weeks
- D.
Multiple years
- 12.______________ is the most common way in which influenza may cause death.
- A.
Underlying disease
- B.
Superinfections
- C.
Direct rapid progression
- 13.MTB can produce large quantities of ___________, which is uncommon to other mycobacteria.
- A.
Tuberculin
- B.
Niacin
- C.
Endotoxin
- D.
Exotoxin
- 14.______________ of tuberculin is used for skin testing of MTB exposure.
- 15.Primary tuberculosis in which inhaled droplet nuclei are deposited in the peripheral respiratory alveoli, most frequently occurs in __________ lobe(s) of the lungs.
- A.
Upper
- B.
Upper and middle
- C.
Middle and lower
- D.
Lower
- 16.The mixture of _________ and _________ responses manifests in a microscopic structure called a granuloma.
- A.
Th1 immune, Th2 immune
- B.
Th1 immune, DTH
- C.
Th2 immune, DTH
- D.
Th2 immune, cytotoxic
- 17.________ and _________ are the leading causes of premature death in the world.
- A.
Tuberculosis and malaria
- B.
Leishmania and loa loa
- C.
Tuberculosis and AIDS
- D.
AIDS and malaria
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