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Systemic infection
Focal infection
Local infection
Bacteremia
Septicemia
Are present for a relatively short time
Cause diseases
Are found in a certain location on the host
Are acquired by direct contact
None of the above
Pandemic - a disease that affects a large number of people in the world in a short time
Endemic - a disease that is constantly present in a population
Epidemic - a fraction of the population having a disease at a specified time
Sporadic - a disease that affects a population occasionally
None of the above
Insects
Droplets from a sneeze
Water
A hypodermic needle
Pus
Does not receive any benefit from its host
Is beneficial to its host
May be an opportunistic pathogen
Does not infect its host
B and d only
Only a result of surgery
Acquired during the course of hospitalization
always present but inapparent at the time of hospitalization
Always caused by medical personnel
Always caused by pathogenic bacteria
Microorganisms are present in a diseased animal.
Diseases can be transmitted from one animal to another
Microorganisms can be cultured
Microorganisms are the result of disease.
Microorganisms cause disease.
Ecology
Epidemiology
Communicable disease
Morbidity and mortality
Public health
Always occur as part of a syndrome
Are changes felt by the patient
Are changes observed by the physician
Are specific for a particular disease
None of the above
Tyhphoid fever
Tuberculosis
Tetanus
Malaria
AIDS
Cell wall
Capsule
Toxins
Ligands
Hyaluronidase
Skin
Paranaternal route
Mucous membranes
All of the above
None of the above
Lipid A
Membrane disrupting toxins
AB toxins
Superantigens
All of the above are types of exotoxins
They are composed of proteins
They are not required in high concentrations to be effective
They are not destroyed by heat
They have specific methods of action
They are more potent than endotoxins
Viral infections
Protozoan and helminthic infections
Bacterial infections
Fungal infections
All of the above
Antigenic changes
Membrane-disrupting toxins
Hyaluronidase
IgA proteases
Invasins
White blood cells
Transferrins
Antibodies
Red blood cells
Ferrodoxins
Required only in minute amounts
Excreted from the cell
Associated with Gram-positive bacteria
Specific in their mode of action
Part of the Gram-negative cell wall
Mucous membranes of the respiratory tract
Mucous membranes of the genitourinary tract.
Skin
Parenteral route
All of the above
Administering antibiotics to patients.
Boiling food prior to consumption
Including antibiotics in the canning process
Preventing fecal contamination of food
Just not eating canned food
Monocyte
Basophil
Neutrophil
Lymphocyte
Eosinophil
Inflammation
Cell lysis
Membrane attack complex
Increased phagocytic activity
Fever
Eosinophil
Basophil
Lymphocyte
Neutrophil
Monocyte
Vasodilation
Diapedesis
Repair
Phagocyte migration
Margination
Fever
Local heat
Pain
Swelling
Redness