VTPB 221 TAMU Exam #2 Questions And Answers 2024/2025 Updates
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VTPB 221 TAMU Exam #2 Questions And Answers 2024/2025 Updates
What are the mortality rates for TB? ANS 14% total death city wise
40% deaths among ages 25 to 40 (working population)
Who discovered the etiologic agent of TB? ANS Robert Koch
What is the etiological agent of TB? ANS Mycobac...
VTPB 221 TAMU Exam #2 Questions And Answers
What are the mortality rates for TB? ANS 14% total death city wise
40% deaths among ages 25 to 40 (working population)
Who discovered the etiologic agent of TB? ANS Robert Koch
What is the etiological agent of TB? ANS Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The Royal Touch ANS political rulers can heal by touch when their authority is derived from
God (meant for TB)
What are the types of TB Robert Koch encountered? ANS brain
intestinal
scrofulous (swollen lymph nodes)
arthritis
What were Robert Koch's Postulates? ANS 1. Constant Presence of the organism in diseased
tissues
2.Isolation and Growth in pure culture of organisms
3. Experimentally induced disease by organisms from pure culture
What other disease did Robert Koch find the etiology? ANS Anthrax
Wound Infections
TB
Cholera (found the agent)
Etiology of Anthrax ANS verification of eye expert witness
a contagion, not miasma
,Etiology of wound infections ANS microphotography
oil immersion
isolation of pure cultures
Etiology of Tuberculosis ANS discovery of Agar
Petri Dish
an exogenous invader
The Koch Postulates
Etiology of Cholera ANS Public health measures
Jacob Henle ANS claimed that living contagions are responsible for diseases
Ferdinand Cohn ANS eyewitness for microscope and prepared figures of anthrax
Koch's tuberculin ANS the first TB subunit vaccine
a phenolic extract of M. tuberculosis grown in liquid broth
failure as it was never tested as a preventative vaccine
Basis of purified protein derivative (PPD) ANS the first diagnostics for infection with M.
Tuberculosis
Why could have Robert Koch's tuberculin be a good preventative vaccine? ANS contained both
proteins and glycoproteins
an antigen/adjuvant formulation
What were Robert Koch four wishes? ANS 1. Married his New Love after divorce
2. He got a brand new institute (The Triangle on the Charite)
, 3. Be became a Nobel Laureate
4. He became rich
Who discovered BCG? ANS Albert Calmette and Camille Guerlin
What is BCG? ANS Bacille Calmette-Guerin
the first and only vaccine against TB
against TB meningitis and miliary TB in infants
bladder cancer
HIV and TB - the perfect storm ANS TB is the number one death among HIV
HIV is the driving force for reemergence of TB
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) ANS is a form of tuberculosis (TB) infection
caused by bacteria that are resistant to treatment
deadliest AMR pathogen
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ANS the microorganism's resistance to an antimicrobial drug that
was once able to treat an infection by that microorganism
occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to
medicines making infections harder to treat
How do vaccines work? ANS blocking/neutralizing of disease-causing pathogens or its
preexisting antibodies
Why do we need new TB Vaccines? ANS the BCG has no protection against pulmonary TB and
transmission of all age groups
What is the new Vaccine for TB? ANS phase 3 vaccine VPM1002
prevention of TB recurrence after successful drug treatment
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