Lesson 2

Question 1

Microbe capable of producing a disease

Answer 1

Causative agent

Question 2

Are simple, one celled microbes with double cell membranes that protect them from harm

Answer 2

Bacteria

Question 3

The most common cause of fatal infectious diseases

Answer 3

Bacteria

Question 4

What are the classification of bacteria

Answer 4

Shape
Need of oxygen
Response to staining
Motility
Tendency to capsulate
Capacity to form spores

Question 5

3 Types of Shape

Answer 5

Cocci
Bacilli
Spirilla

Question 6

Two types of oxygen

Answer 6

Aerobic
Anaerobic

Question 7

Types of grain

Answer 7

Grain + and -
Acid fast

Question 8

Types of motility

Answer 8

Motile
Non-motile

Question 9

Types of capsulate

Answer 9

Capsulated
Encapsulated

Question 10

Rod shape

Answer 10

Bacilli

Question 11

Spiral shape

Answer 11

Spirilla

Question 12

A bacterium with flexible, slender, undulating, spiral rods that possess cell wall

Answer 12

Spirochete

Question 13

3 forms of spirochete

Answer 13

Treponema (Syphilis)
Leptospira (Leptospirosis)
Borrelia (Lyme Disease)

Question 14

Spirochete: Syphilis

Answer 14

Treponema

Question 15

Spirochete: Lyme Disease

Answer 15

Borrelia

Question 16

Spirochete: Leptospirosis

Answer 16

Leptospira

Question 17

Smallest known microbes

Answer 17

Virus

Question 18

Small, gram negative (-) bacteria like microbes that can induce life threatening infections

Answer 18

Rickettsia

Question 19

These are usually transmitted through the bite of arthropod carriers like lice, fleas, ticks, as well as through waste products

Answer 19

Rickettsia

Question 20

Example of Rickettsia

Answer 20

Typhus fever
Q fever

Question 21

Smaller than ricketssia but larger than a virus

Answer 21

Chlamydiae

Question 22

The common cause of infection of the urethra, bladder, fallopian tubes, and the prostate gland

Answer 22

Chlamydiae

Question 23

The most common chlamydial infection is

Answer 23

Transmitted through sexual contact

Question 24

It is found almost everywhere on the earth

Answer 24

Fungi

Question 25

They live in organic matter, soil, water, animals, and plants

Answer 25

Fungi

Question 26

They also live inside and outside of the body

Answer 26

Fungi

Question 27

They are much larger than bacteria

Answer 27

Protozoan

Question 28

Simplest single celled organism of the animal kingdom

Answer 28

Protozoan

Question 29

Live on or wiithin other organism

Answer 29

Parasites

Question 30

They live at the expense of others and they don't usually kill their host but take only the nutrients they need

Answer 30

Parasites

Question 31

Refers to the environment and objects on which an organism survived and multiplies

Answer 31

Reservoir of infection

Question 32

3 reservoir of infection

Answer 32

Human reservoir Animals Nonliving things

Question 33

Types of carriers

Answer 33

Incubatory carrier Convalescent carrier Intermittent carrier Chronic or sustained carrier

Question 34

a person who is incubating the illness

Answer 34

Incubatory carrier

Question 35

Occasionally sheds the pathogenic organism

Answer 35

Intermittent carrier

Question 36

A person who always has the infectious organism in his/her system

Answer 36

Chronic or sustained carrier

Question 37

A person who is at the recovery stage of illness

Answer 37

Convalescent Carrier

Question 38

The path or way in which the organism leaves the reservoir

Answer 38

Portal of exit

Question 39

The Common Portal of Exit

Answer 39

Respiratory system Genitourinary tract Gastrointestinal tract Skin and mucous membrane Placenta

Question 40

The infectious agent passes through from the portal of exit of the reservoir to the susceptible host

Answer 40

Mode of Transmission

Question 41

4 models / types of transmission

Answer 41

Contact transmission Air borne transmission Vehicle transmission Vector borne transmission

Question 42

The most common type of transmission

Answer 42

Contact transmission

Question 43

3 types of contact transmission

Answer 43

Direct contact Indirect contact Droplet spread

Question 44

Occurs when a susceptible person comes in contact with a contaminated object

Answer 44

Indirect contact

Question 45

A transmission through contact with respiratory secretions when the infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks

Answer 45

Droplet spread

Question 46

Refers to a person to person transder of organism

Answer 46

Direct contact

Question 47

Occurs when a susceptible person comes in contact with a contaminated object

Answer 47

Indirect contact

Question 48

When fine microbial particles or dust particles containing microbes remain suspended in the air for a prolonged period

Answer 48

Air borne transmission

Question 49

Occurs when intermediate carriers such as fleas, flies, and mosquitoes transfer microbes to another living organism

Answer 49

Vector borne transmission

Question 50

The transmission of infectious disease through articles or substances that harbor the organism until it is ingested or inoculated into the host

Answer 50

Vehicle transmission

Question 51

The venue where the organism gains entrance into the susceptible host

Answer 51

Portal of entry