Viral Diseases

Question 1

What pathogen causes smallpox?

Answer 1

smallpox virus
>orthopoxvirus
>variola virus

Question 2

What pathogen causes monkeypox?

Answer 2

monkeypox virus

>orthopoxvirus

Question 3

What pathogen causes molluscum contagiosum?

Answer 3

molluscum contagiosum virus

>molluscipoxvirus

Question 4

What pathogen causes herpes infection above the waist?

Answer 4

human herpesvirus 1

Question 5

What pathogen causes herpes infection below the waist?

Answer 5

human herpesvirus 2

Question 6

What pathogen causes chicken pox and shingles?

Answer 6

human herpesvirus 3

>varicella-zoster virus

Question 7

What pathogen causes warts?

Answer 7

human papillomavirus

Question 8

What pathogen causes rubeola?

Answer 8

measles virus

>morbillivirus

Question 9

What pathogen causes scarlet fever?

Answer 9

streptococcus pyogenes

Question 10

What pathogen causes rubella (german measles)

Answer 10

rubella virus

>rubivirus

Question 11

What pathogen causes erythema infectiosum (fifth disease)?

Answer 11

parvovirus B19

>only human parvovirus

Question 12

What pathogen causes roseola?

Answer 12

HHV-6

>roseolovirus