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Question:
What is the most frequent of all human diseases?
Answer:
The common cold, a normally self-limiting viral infection of the
nasopharynx.
Question:
Why are influenza viruses the primary causes of respiratory epidemics and
endemic diseases?
Answer:
They are capable of rapid mutations.
,Question:
Which viral infections besides the common cold and influenza are
transmitted via the respiratory system?
Answer:
Viral pneumonia
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
SARS.
Question:
What are deep mycoses of the respiratory system?
Answer:
Fungal infections of the lungs, including –
Histoplasmosis
Coccidioidomycosis
Blastomycosis
Aspergillosis
, Question:
All of the following are structures of the lower respiratory system except
the
Answer:
pharynx.
Question:
Scarlet fever is caused by
Answer:
Streptococcus pyogenes.
Question:
Which of the following organisms is commonly found in the normal flora of
the upper respiratory system?
Answer:
Staphylococcus aureus
Question:
Whooping cough is caused by
Answer:
Bordetella pertussis.