Infectious Disease Quizzes, Questions & Answers

Most of us have had some sort of infectious disease in our lives, and many of us have taken medicines to help us recover. Do you know the names of all the infectious diseases we are susceptible to? Our infectious disease quizzes have been designed to really test how much you know about viruses and microorganisms.

You may know that our bodies can fight off an infectious disease, but do you know how this happens? Do you know what a primary pathogen or an occult infection is? Do you know how a scientist can tell if a disease is infectious or not. Next time you have an infection; will you know what the symptoms are, or how it can be treated? Have a look at one of our infectious disease quizzes and see how much you know and how much you still have to learn.

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Do I Have Mono? Quiz

Curious about the possibility of having mono? This specialized quiz is designed to shed light on the subject. While mononucleosis is commonly referred to as the "kissing disease," it can be contracted through...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 49474 | Last updated: Sep 19, 2023

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Are you suffering from fatigue?

Yes, I'm tired all the time.

I do feel lethargic sometimes.

Not really, maybe after a late night and early morning.

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Quiz

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 3250 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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A 7-year-old boy presents to the emergency room with fever, headache, and rash. He recently returned from a hunting trip to North Carolina with his father. His father states he and his son had several tick bites. There are no meningeal signs on examination. Labs are significant for thrombocytopenia and hyponatremia. WHICH of the following best describes the typical rash associated with most likely cause of illness in this patient?

A diffuse maculopapular rash which appears symmetrically over the body

A diffuse pruritic vesicular rash which appears in pinpoint lesions over the body

A macular rash which begins on the head and spreads to the remainder of the body in a descending fashion

A petechial rash which first appears on the extremities and moves onto the trunk in a centripetal fasion

Erythema of the cheeks, followed by a lacy-reticulated rash over the trunk, especially the extremities

Year 9 Infectious Diseases

Australian Curriculum - Infectious Diseases

Questions: 16 | Attempts: 2949 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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Which microbe is the smallest?

Virus

Bacterium

Fungus

Parasite

Infectious, Non Infectious Diseases, & Disabilities

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 4025 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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Infectious diseases are caused by tiny organisms called __________

Pathogens

Parasites

Bacteria

Emerging And Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases after lesson questions

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 1235 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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AIDS is an emerging diseaes?

True

False

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Immunizations And Infectious Disease

Immunizations and Infectious Disease

The purpose of this quiz is to test the knowledge of parents on infectious disease and immunizations after viewing the provided presentation.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1566 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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The vision of Healthy People 2020 is to have "A society in which all people live long, healthy lives."

True

False

Prevention Of Infectious Disease

Prevention of Infectious Disease

Please email your certificate of completion [email protected] for CCA or [email protected] for GCA.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 402 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

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An illness that can be spread from one person to another either indirectly or directly is called...

Communicable disease

The flu

Bacteria

Parasite

Infectious Disease For Cosmotology Based On Milady's Glossary

Infectious Disease for Cosmotology based on Milady's glossary

Questions: 19 | Attempts: 2142 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

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A disease caused by the HIV virus that breaks down the body's immune system

Hepatitis

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Bloodborne pathogen

Herpes

Boards Prep: ID Pneumonia's

BOARDS PREP: ID Pneumonia's

Infectious Diseases

Questions: 26 | Attempts: 104 | Last updated: Feb 21, 2024

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Endemic to Ohio River Valley & Midwest/Southern areas

Histoplasma capsulatum

Hantavirus

Coccidiodes immitis

Burkholderia pseudomallei

Legionella pneumoniae

Chlamydia psittaci

Infectious Mononucleosis

INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS

INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS QUIZ

Questions: 35 | Attempts: 1655 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS IS CAUSED BY

WEST NILE VIRUS

EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS

RSV

Infectious Diseases Test (Quiz)

Infectious Diseases Test (quiz)

Questions: 23 | Attempts: 916 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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What were the effects of the 1918 pandemic of influenza?

More people died in 4 years than 4 years of the black plague

More people died in 1 year than 4 years of the black plague, shortages, economy, science, population, stores, public gatherings, healthcare system...

They all lived a happier life

People got pet birds

Mechanisms Of Infectious Disease

Mechanisms of Infectious Disease

Introduction to Microbes and Parasites

Questions: 31 | Attempts: 345 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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What is commensalism?

Interaction in which one organism benefits and the host is unaffected

Microorganism and the host both derive benefits from the interaction

Only the infecting organism benefits

Organism capable of supporting the nutritional and physical requirements of another

Provide The Generic Name (Miscellaneous Infectious Disease Drugs Review)

Provide the Generic Name (Miscellaneous Infectious Disease Drugs Review)

Provide the Generic Name

Questions: 48 | Attempts: 750 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Infectious Viruses Diseases Quiz

Infectious Viruses Diseases quiz

Based on chapter 8 of Robbins and Cotran pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th edition.

Questions: 23 | Attempts: 1989 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

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Viruses are classified by Their nucleic acid genome (DNA or RNA) (Double stranded or single stranded) The shape of the capsid (icosahedral or ______) The presence or absence of a ______ envelope Their mode of replication The preferred cell type for replication ( ie tissue _______) The type of pathology

Helical, lipid, tropism

Spherical, bilayer, prostatism

Spherical, protein, pleomorphism

Infectious Disease Exam 1

Quiz made for podiatry students for their INDI exam 1.

Questions: 144 | Attempts: 375 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
Staph saprophyticus does which type of hemolysis?

Alpha

Beta

Gamma

Variable

Non-Hemolytic

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