Exam 1 Part 1

Question 1

What body system is affected by Variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease?

Answer 1

Nervous system

Question 2

What is the causative agent responsible for vCJD?

Answer 2

prion

Question 3

What disease is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes which is a Gram (+) bacteria and affects the skin?

Answer 3

Necrotizing Fascitis

Question 4

What is the causative agent for Vibrio vulnificus Infection?

Answer 4

Vibrio vulnificus

Question 5

What type of organism is Vibrio vulnificus?

Answer 5

Gram (-) bacteria

Question 6

What body system is affected by Vibrio vulnificus infection?

Answer 6

skin

Question 7

What is the causative agent for Pertussis?

Answer 7

Bordetella pertussis

Question 8

What type of organism causes Pertussis?

Answer 8

Gram (-) bacteria

Question 9

What body system is affected by Pertussis?

Answer 9

Respiratory

Question 10

What is the causative agent of Aspergillosis?

Answer 10

Aspergillus

Question 11

What type of organism causes Aspergillosis?

Answer 11

Fungus

Question 12

What body system is affected by Aspergillosis?

Answer 12

Respiratory

Question 13

What causes Chikungunya?

Answer 13

Chikungunya Virus

Question 14

What body system is affected by Chikungunya?

Answer 14

Nervous

Question 15

What body system is affected by the causative agent Norovirus?

Answer 15

Gastrointestinal

Question 16

What is the disease caused by Norovirus?

Answer 16

Norovirus Gastroenteritis

Question 17

What Disease is caused by Hantavirus?

Answer 17

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

Question 18

What body system is affected by Hantavirus?

Answer 18

Respiratory

Question 19

What is the working definition of microbiology?

Answer 19

Study of entities too small to be seen with the unaided human eye.

Question 20

What is abiogenesis?

Answer 20

spontaneous generation

Question 21

Who challenged spontaneous generation by putting meat into three different jars (one open, one sealed, and covered)?

Answer 21

Francesco Redi

Question 22

Who challenged spontaneous generation by briefly boiling broth? (bacteria grew after a few days)

Answer 22

John Needham

Question 23

Who challenged spontaneous generation by boiling broth until it was clear? (bacteria did not grow after a few days)

Answer 23

Lazarro Spellanzani

Question 24

Who put Spontaneous Generation to rest permanently?

Answer 24

Louis Pasteur

Question 25

Which hypothesis of Fermentation was correct?

Answer 25

Yeasts ferment grape juice into alcohol

Question 26

What microbiological event had a greater impact upon culture and society than any disease or epidemic?

Answer 26

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Question 27

What yeast means "sugar fungus that makes beer?"

Answer 27

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Question 28

Who hypothesized that microbes were responsible for diseases?

Answer 28

Louis Pasteur (Germ Theory of Disease)

Question 29

What is the study of causation of disease?

Answer 29

etiology

Question 30

Who was in a race with Louis Pasteur to discover the cause of anthrax?

Answer 30

Robert Koch

Question 31

Who discovered the cause of tuberculosis?

Answer 31

Robert Koch

Question 32

Who was first to use Petri dishes?

Answer 32

Robert Koch

Question 33

Who came up with a method isolation using gelatin/potato? What is used now?

Answer 33

Robert Koch; Agar

Question 34

What was the first bacterium proven to cause a disease?

Answer 34

Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax)

Question 35

Who came up with the 4 postulates (steps that must be taken to prove the cause of any infectious disease)?

Answer 35

Robert Koch

Question 36

T/F: According to Koch's Postulates, an agent must be isolated and grown outside the host as a step taken to prove the cause of any infectious disease.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Who was responsible for initiating handwashing?

Answer 37

Semmelweis

Question 38

Who is responsible for Antiseptic?

Answer 38

Lister

Question 39

Who is responsible for infection control/epidemiology?

Answer 39

Snow

Question 40

Who is responsible for the field of immunology?

Answer 40

Jenner

Question 41

Who created the first smallpox vaccine?

Answer 41

Jenner

Question 42

Who is responsible for "magic bullets" or rather the field of chemotherapy?

Answer 42

Ehrlich

Question 43

Semmelweis hypothesized that "cadaver particles" from the hands of medical students were responsible for causing what illness?

Answer 43

puerperal fever

Question 44

Who decreased the number of deaths among his patients by 2/3 with the use of carbolic acid during surgery?

Answer 44

Joseph Lister

Question 45

Who determined the cause of cholera in London?

Answer 45

John Snow

Question 46

What is the study of occurrence, distribution, and spread of disease in humans?

Answer 46

Epidemiology

Question 47

Who created successful vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies?

Answer 47

Pasteur

Question 48

What was the purpose of the "magic bullet?"

Answer 48

to kill microorganisms but remain nontoxic to humans

Question 49

T/F: Humans get contract Mad Cow Disease.

Answer 49

False; humans get vCJD

Question 50

What is an emerging disease?

Answer 50

a disease arising in the past two decades, either because it is new to a population, or because it is newly recognized

Question 51

T/F: there is no treatment for vCJD.

Answer 51

True

Question 52

How does vCJD affect the nervous tissue?

Answer 52

slowly eroding, leaving sponge-like holes in the brain