BIOD 171 MODULE 5 ESSENTIAL MICROBIOLOGY FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW AHEAD SUCCESS STRATEGY

BIOD 171 MODULE 5 ESSENTIAL
MICROBIOLOGY FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
AHEAD SUCCESS STRATEGY

●● The ability to cause disease
Answer: pathogenicity


●● Ease of a pathogen to infect and cause disease
Answer: virulence


●● the 5 steps of infection
Answer: 1. enter the host
2. adhere to host tissues
3. invade tissues and get nutrients
4. replicate and avoid immune system
5. transmit to a new host


●● what is the typical portal of entry for pathogens
Answer: mucous membranes

,●● antigen mimicry, masking, and variation are examples of ways
pathogens do what?
Answer: evade the immune system


●● decreasing the immune function and avoiding phagocytosis are the
ways pathogens do what?
Answer: undermind immune system


●● what are the ways pathogens spread through direct contact
Answer: person to person, environment, animal, mother to child


●● what are the ways pathogens spread through indirect contact
Answer: respiratory aerosoles, vehicle, vector


●● the three type of precautions
Answer: contact, droplet, and airborn


●● what are pathogens that have the ability to lyse RBCs
Answer: landsfield group


●● shape of streptococcus
Answer: chain of cocci

, ●● streptococcus gram status
Answer: positive


●● streptococcus motility
Answer: non-motile


●● streptococcus catalase
Answer: negative


●● streptococcus lysis abilities
Answer: alpha, beta, and gamma


●● Streptococcus virulence
Answer: M protein and hyaluronic acid capsule


●● what is the membrane protein that can disrupt the body's innate
immune response
Answer: M protein


●● what does the hyaluronic acid capsule do
Answer: hides bacteria from immune cells and increases adhesion