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Microbiology Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
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©PREP4EXAMS @2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:27 AMMicrobiology Chapter 14 and Chapter 15
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Exotoxin - ✔️✔️1.Found usually with gram positive and a few gram negative bacteria 2. Can
easily be converted to a toxoid 3. Is unstable 4. Mostly polypeptides 5. Highly specific 6. No
fever 7. strong atigency
Ex. Botulism, Tetanus
Endotoxin - ✔️✔️1. Lipopolysaccharide complex 2. Mostly produced by gram-negative
bacteria 3. stable 4. weak antigency 5. cannot be immunized 6. non toxoid 7. High fever
Ex. Tularemia
Hyaluronidase - ✔️✔️A substance released by a microbe that can cause it to spread throughout
tissues would be
True - ✔️✔️Any parasite that can cause a disease is a pathogen (t/f)
true - ✔️✔️The degree of intensity of a disease is known as virulence (t/f)
false. Weaken not increased - ✔️✔️Attenuation means that the disease producing ability of the
organism has dramatically increased (t/f)
true - ✔️✔️Increasing animal passage can increase the virulence of a pathogen
Parasitism - ✔️✔️A symbiotic relationship in which on member is harmed and the other
benefits
Host - ✔️✔️An organism harboring another organism
Symbiosis - ✔️✔️The living together of two forms of life
Commensalism - ✔️✔️A symbiotic relationship in which one member benefits and the other is
neither harmed nor benefited
Mutalism - ✔️✔️Both members of a symbiotic association benefit
Infection - ✔️✔️Multiplication of a pathogen in a host's tissues
Infestation - ✔️✔️The presence of an arthropod on the body
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Disease - ✔️✔️A disturbance of normal body functions
Pathogenicity - ✔️✔️A pathogen's capacity to cause disease
Resident microbiota - ✔️✔️Microbes always present in a host
Contamination - ✔️✔️The presence of microbes on inanimate objects
Virulence - ✔️✔️The intensity of a disease produced by a pathogen
Transient microbiota - ✔️✔️Temporary members of the normal microbiota
Opportunists - ✔️✔️Organism that take advantage of a host's lowered resistance
attenuation - ✔️✔️Weakening of a pathogen's disease-producing ability
Iatrogenic - ✔️✔️Caused by medical procedure and/or treatment
Endocrine - ✔️✔️result from excesses or deficiencies of hormones
communicable (contagious) - ✔️✔️refer to disease that can be spread from one host to another
Congenital - ✔️✔️result from structural and functional defects present at birth, caused by
drugs, excessive x-ray exposure, or certain infections
Degenerative - ✔️✔️disorders that develop in one or more body systems as aging occurs
immunological - ✔️✔️caused by malfunction of host's immune system
idiopathic - ✔️✔️result from unknown causes
Mental - ✔️✔️caused by a variety of factors, including those of an emotional or psychogenic
nature, and consequences of certain infections
Inherited - ✔️✔️caused by errors in genetic information
neoplastic - ✔️✔️result in abnormal growths
nosocomial - ✔️✔️hospital acquired
nutritional - ✔️✔️vitamin deficiency
noninfectious - ✔️✔️caused by other than infectious disease agents
Spreading factor, Hyaluronidase - ✔️✔️enzyme that digests the gluelike substance holding
cells together
adhesins - ✔️✔️protein used by bacteria to attach to host cell's surface
coagulase - ✔️✔️bacterial enzyme that accelerates blood plasma coagulation
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