Mbi 111 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Diseases caused by Streptococcus Pyogenes Answer Strep Throat Rheumatic Fever Glomerulonephritis Erysipelas Impetigo Septicemia Puerperal Sepsis Necrotizing Fasciitis Pneumonia Immunization and Treatment for Pneumonia Answer Vaccine based on polysaccharide. Protects against 90% of infections Treated with antibiotics Immunization and Treatment for Tuberculosis Answer BCG Vaccine Antibiotics for 6-9 months DOTS What conditions may lead a person to develop Pneumonia and Rheumati...

urinary tract infections: bacterial or viral correct answers bacterial UTI bacterial agents correct answers E. coli (more common), also Staphylococcus saprophyticus and Enterococcus How UTIs happen correct answers normal microbiota from large intestine and way to urethera and up bladder how are UTIs transmitted correct answers not transmitted person to person cystitis correct answers bladder infection (UTI) symptoms of cystitis (UTI) correct answers frequent urge to urinate, painf...

2 Types of Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) correct answers 1. Cystitis (Bladder Infection) 2. Pyelonephritis (Kidney Infection) Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) Bacterial Agents (3) correct answers 1.E. coli (most common) 2. Staphylococcus saprophyticus 3. Enterococcus Occurs when E. coli bacteria (normal microbiota in the large intestine) find their way to the urethra and then travel up to the bladder Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) Symptoms (7) correct answers -Frequent urge to urina...

Vaccination results in A. Natural active immunity B. Natural passive immunity C. Artificial active immunity D. Artificial passive immunity correct answers C The transfer of antibodies from mother to developing fetus across the placenta or from mother to infant via breast milk results in A. Natural active immunity B. Natural passive immunity C. Artificial active immunity D. Artificial passive immunity correct answers B The PCV13 vaccine is made from antigenic sugar mol...

Rheumatic fever is a consequence of correct answers an immune reaction following strep throat, resulting in damage to heart valves Diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae include correct answers otitis media, meningitis, lobar pneumonia, bronchial pneumonia Which group is at greatest risk for B Streptococcus infection? correct answers neonates Pertussis has all of the following characteristics: correct answers 1. the pathogen has virulence factors to destroy the action of respira...

Microorganisms correct answers living things too small to see Decomposition correct answers Breakdown of dead plants/animals Bioremediation correct answers Intentional use of microbes to brake down waste Normal Microbiota correct answers Microbes that live in/on the body which help protect us from harmful microbes Nitrogen Fixation correct answers certain bacteria fix by removing Nitrogen from air (plants) Photosynthesis correct answers Carbon Dioxide + Sun --> Oxygen + sugars/...

carrier correct answers People with no signs or symptoms of a clinical disease, but the pathogens are inconspicuously harbored and shed to others. Can be chronic (long term shedding) or passive (contaminated hands or clothing) epidemiology correct answers the study of when and where diseases occur and how they are transmitted in populations; emphasis on disease prevention and control Center for Disease Control correct answers CDC; studies epidemiology in America zoonoses correct answers...

scarring of the fallopian tubes, female infertility, ectopic pregnancy correct answers potential consequences of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease include: they both are transmitted by sexual contact and they both can cause eye infections correct answers which of the following do chlamydia trachomatis and neisseria gonorrhoeae have in common? flushes the system as it flows out of the body, has an acidic pH, contains antibacterial substances correct answers urine assists in protecting the urinary...

Infection correct answers colonization of the body by a microorganism Disease correct answers any change from the general state of good health; not all disease is due to infection and infection does not always cause disease Sign correct answers Objective evidence of disease (rash, fever) Symptom correct answers Subjective evidence of disease (pain, headache) Mutualism correct answers benefits both organisms Commensalism correct answers One population benefits, the other is neither...

True Pathogen correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease in healthy people with normal immune defenses Opportunistic Pathogens correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease when the hosts defenses are compromised or normal microbiota that causes disease after entering part of the body where they do not belong Infectious Dose correct answers Minimum number of microbes required to cause an infection in a hose (ranges from one cell to billions of cells depending on microbial ty...