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Semmelweis Module 1 Study Quizzes - Microbiology
1. Ignaz Semmelweis was trained as a and went to work in
an Austrian hospital around the year .
ANS physician, 1847
2. What differences did he observe between the doctor's/med student's ob- stetrics clinic
and the midwive's clinic in his hospital?
ANS much lower death rate in midwife's clinic
3. What "activities" in the clinics did Semmelweis study to see if they might be the cause of
the illness?
ANS ringing of religious bells in clinic or position of women while giving birth
4. Semmelweis ruled out those activities and finally concluded that what was being
transmitted to the mothers in the clinic by the male doctors and med students ?
ANS something on hands/clothing from dissecting cadavers or autopsies of patients who died
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from illness
5. What did Semmelweis have the doctors do to limit the spread of the disease among the
new mothers?
ANS washing hands with chlorine product
6. The change in the doctors behavior that Semmelweis had them do resulted in
ANS dramatic decline in rate of illness and death that = midwife death
7. We now know that the microorganism being spread in the doctor's clinic that causes
puerperal fever (and many other human diseases!) is
ANS Group A streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes)
8. Because of the success of Semmelweis' remedy to the spread of the illness in the doctor's
clinic and the significant saving of lives, his reward was
ANS belit- tled, insulted, mocked for making them wash their hands and fired
9. How long is it estimated, according to NIH research, that coronavirus can survive on
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