Exam 4 GI Chart

Question 1

What type of organism causes a peptic ulcer

Answer 1

Helibacter pylori

Question 2

What type of organism causes cholera (bacterial gastroenteritis)

Answer 2

Vibrio cholerae

Question 3

What type of organism causes Traveler’s diarrhea (bacterial gastroenteritis)

Answer 3

Escherichia coli (O157:H7)

Question 4

What type of organism causes pseudomembranous colitis (bacterial gastroenteritis)

Answer 4

Clostridium difficile

Question 5

What organism causes salmonellosis = salmonella food poisoning (acute bacterial gastroenteritis)

Answer 5

Salmonella enterica, S. Enteridis, S. Enterica typhimurium

Question 6

What organism causes salmonellosis = typhoid fever (enteric fever)

Answer 6

Salmonella enterica typhi, S. Enterica paratyphi

Question 7

What organism causes staphylococcal food poisoning

Answer 7

Staphylococcus aureus

Question 8

What organism causes yersinia food poisoning

Answer 8

Yersinia enterocolitica

Question 9

What organism causes oral herpes

Answer 9

HHV-1 (sometimes HHV-2)

Question 10

What organism causes mumps

Answer 10

Mumps virus (Rubulavirus)

Question 11

What organisms cause viral gastroenteritis

Answer 11

Norovirus (calicivirus), Astrovirus, Rotavirus

Question 12

What organism causes hookworm infections

Answer 12

Necator americanus, acylostoma duodenale

Question 13

What organism causes pinworm infestations

Answer 13

Enterobius vermicularis

Question 14

What relieves and what exacerbates peptic ulcers

Answer 14

If pain is relieved by food then it is duodenal, if the ulcer is exacerbated by food then it is gastric

Question 15

What is special about cholera (bacterial gastroenteritis)

Answer 15

It is the most common vibrio to infect humans

Question 16

What is another name for shigellosis

Answer 16

Aka bacilary dyssentary

Question 17

What toxin is part of shigellosis

Answer 17

Shiga toxin: in the US S sonnei is 2/3 and s flexxeri is 1/3

Question 18

What does traveler’s disease cause

Answer 18

Most commonly causes GI infection

Question 19

What is the most common cause of bacterial gasttroenteritis in the US

Answer 19

Campylobacter diarrhea

Question 20

What does pseudomembranous colitis cause that can be life threatening

Answer 20

Life threatening peritonitis

Question 21

Who is the famous carrieer of typhoid fever

Answer 21

Typhoid mary

Question 22

What is bacillus cereus food posoning also called

Answer 22

Aka fried rice syndrome

Question 23

What disease is associated with the virus latent in the trigeminal ganglis

Answer 23

Oral herpes

Question 24

What disease has almost been eradicated from the industrial world

Answer 24

Mumps

Question 25

What causes 90% of gastroenteritis and what is the disease number one in within the US

Answer 25

Viral gastroenteritis associated with the norovirus which is the number one cause of foodborne illness in the US

Question 26

What disease is the most common cause of infantile gastroenteritis

Answer 26

Viral gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus

Question 27

What is hepatitis also known as

Answer 27

Aka infection hepatitis

Question 28

Which disease is resistant to common household disinfectants

Answer 28

Hepatitis A

Question 29

Which disease has a coinfection and what does it do

Answer 29

Hepatitis B - confection with hepatits D virus increasing the risk of permanent liver damage

Question 30

Which hepatitis virus accounts for the most non hep A and non hep B in the US

Answer 30

Hep C

Question 31

What is special about hepatitis D

Answer 31

Needs HBV coinfection, so called satellite virues

Question 32

What is another name for hepatitiis E

Answer 32

Aka enteric hepatitis

Question 33

What is another name for giardiasis and what is special about it

Answer 33

Aka beaver fever, it is a common waterborne gastrointestinal disease in the US

Question 34

What is another name for cryptosporidiosis

Answer 34

Aka cryptosporidium enteritis

Question 35

90% of amebiasis are what

Answer 35

Ninety percent of cases are luminal amebiasis

Question 36

What disease is beef tapeworm proglottids

Answer 36

Tapeworm infection caused by taenia saginata

Question 37

What disease is associated with pork tapeworm prglottids

Answer 37

Tapeworm infestations caused by taenia solium

Question 38

What is another name for a tapeworm cause by diphyllobathrium

Answer 38

Diphyllobothriasis

Question 39

What is canine tapeworm

Answer 39

Tapeworm infestation caused by echinococcus granulosus

Question 40

What is the most common nematode infection of humans worldwide

Answer 40

Ascariasis

Question 41

What is the second most common nematode affecting humans worldwide

Answer 41

Hookworm infection

Question 42

What is the most common parasitic worm in the US

Answer 42

Pinworm infestations

Question 43

What is another name for dracunculiasis

Answer 43

Aka guinea worm disease

Question 44

What is another name for trichinosis

Answer 44

Aka trichinellosis and it is NOT common in the US

Question 45

What disease is associated with rice water stool

Answer 45

Cholera

Question 46

Which bacterial enteritis is asssociated with watery disrrhea

Answer 46

Traveler’s diarrhea

Question 47

How many times it the bloody and frequent diarrhea in campylobacter diarrhea

Answer 47

10+/day x7-10

Question 48

What type of salmonellosis can lead to peritonitis

Answer 48

Tyhpoid fever

Question 49

Does clostridial food poisoning have fever or N/v

Answer 49

No!

Question 50

Which food poissoning is associated with inflammation of the intestinal tract

Answer 50

Yersinia food poisoning

Question 51

What disease causes orchitis and what causes it

Answer 51

Testicular swelling in boys caused by mumps, also causes perotitis

Question 52

Which hepatitis is associated with liver cancer

Answer 52

Hep B, Hep D also plays a role in triggering liver cancer

Question 53

Which hepatitis is associated with fatality in 20% of pregnant women

Answer 53

Hep E

Question 54

What diesease is associated with rotten egg smelling stool

Answer 54

Giardiasis

Question 55

What are 3 major symptoms of amebiasis

Answer 55

Luminal amebiasis that is asymptomatic, invasive amebic dysentery, invasive extraintestinal amebiasis causing necrotic lesions in various organs

Question 56

What disease is associated with megaloblastic anemia

Answer 56

Tapeworm infecstations

Question 57

What type of cysts are associated with tapeworm infestations and where do they form

Answer 57

Hydatid cysts that can form in any organ but occur primarily in the liver

Question 58

What diesease is associated with ground itch and what are other symptoms that are chronic

Answer 58

Hookworm infections causing chronic anemia, iron and protein deficiencies

Question 59

What disease is associated with intense perianal itching especially at night

Answer 59

Pinworm infestations that can also decrease appetite

Question 60

Which disease has characteristic of a worm forming a blister on the skin and where is it most likely locatd

Answer 60

Dracunculiasis - worm forms a blister generally on the foot

Question 61

What disease would result in muscle pain and weakness along with facial swelling around the eye

Answer 61

Trichinosis