HESI A2 COMPREHENSIVE NURSING ENTRANCE EXAM

• What are two other names for infections’ pathologies? • Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases • Communicable diseases or terminal diseases • Transmissible diseases or preventable diseases • Communicative diseases or unstable diseases • What does infectivity describe? • The inability of an organism to multiply in the host • The inability of an organism to reproduce • The ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host • The ability of an organism to reproduce in the host • How do we know an infection is not synonymous with an infectious disease? • Because an infectious disease destroys infections with enough time. • Because an infection may not cause important clinicalsymptoms or impair host function. • We do not. The two are synonymous. • Because an infection istoo fatal to be an infectious disease. Questions 5 – 8 refer to the following passage. Passage 2 - Viruses A virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxin or poison) is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of other organisms. Most viruses are too small to be seen directly with a microscope. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and single-celled organisms. Unlike prions and viroids, viruses consist of two or three parts: all viruses have genes made