Central Nervous System Infection

Question 1

Encephalitis is inflammation of the ____

Answer 1

Brain

Question 2

What do you call the increase cerebral pressure of the brain?

Answer 2

Cerebral/brain infarction

Question 3

Microbes have predilection for ________

Answer 3

Respiratory Mucosa

Question 4

Name the 3 types of Meningitis

Answer 4

1. Bacterial Meningitis - fatal/severe
2. Viral Meningitis - less severe, no rash
3. Fungal Meningitis - slow onset

Question 5

True/False: Microbes that breach cause encephalitis.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Give 4 examples of opportunistic microbes

Answer 6

1. Staphyloccoci
2. Propionibacterium
3. Corynebacterium
4. Fungi

Question 7

Gram stain of Pneumoccocal meningitis

Answer 7

Gram positive cocci

Question 8

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is caused by which type of microbe?

Answer 8

Prion

Question 9

Naegleria fowler causes which type of brain infection?

Answer 9

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)