Microbiology Final Jersey College Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

Microbiology Final Jersey College Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions (18) Symptoms of endocarditis - Answer️️ -Fever and chills, weight loss, muscle ache (18) Septicemia - Answer️️ -The toxic condition caused by the multiplication of bacteria in the blood. (18) Microbemia - Answer️️ -In infection caused by a microorganism entering the circulatory system through lymphatic drainage. (18) Strep throat - Answer️️ -Causes a rare, inflammatory disease called rheumatic fever (18) Examples of zoonotic diseases - Answer️️ -Brucellosis, undulant fever, tularemia, rabbit fever (18) Rabbit fever caused by which bacteria? - Answer️️ -Francisella tularensis (18) Rocky Mountain spotted fever is caused by bacterium: - Answer️️ -Rickettsia rickettsia ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:13 PM JERSEY COLLEGE 2 (18) Cytomegalovirus infections are caused by which human herpes virus? - Answer️️ -Five (18) Malaria is caused by a: - Answer️️ -Protozoan (18) How is toxoplasmosis categorized? - Answer️️ -Protozoan (18) Gangrene - Answer️️ -A complication of necrosis related to wounds (18) Zoonotic - Answer️️ -Any infectious disease or infection that can be transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans (18) Bacteremia - Answer️️ -When bacteria are found in the blood (18) Sepsis - Answer️️ -Toxic condition caused by the spread of bacteria or bacterial toxins from the site of infection (18) Trypanosoma Cruzi - Answer️️ -Cause of Chagas' disease (18) Dry gangrene - Answer️️ -often occurs in persons with impaired peripheral blood flow (18) Internal gangrene (white gangrene) - Answer️️ -generally contracted after surgery or trauma ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:13 PM JERSEY COLLEGE 3 (18) Wet gangrene - Answer️️ -occurs in organs lined by mucous membranes such as the mouth, lower intestinal tract, lungs, and cervix (18) Gas gangrene - Answer️️ -caused by bacteria that produce gas within the infected tissue. Toxins produced will cause necrosis; if untreated the condition is fatal. (18) Principles of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) - Answer️️ -group of febrile illnesses ranging in severity from relatively mild to life- threatening. Caused by four distinct viral families: Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, and Flaviviridae. All VHFs characterized by fever, overall vascular system damage, and bleeding disorders that can lead to high fever, shock, and death. Although distributed over much of the world, many VHFs are present in geographically limited areas and risk of infection is restricted to those areas. (18) Systemic Mycosis - Answer️️ -fungal infections capable of affecting all internal organs. Persons with a competent immune system may be asymptomatic or show only minor symptoms. Immune-compromised patients (including persons with HIV, cancer, or neutropenia, organ transplant recipients, patients recovering from pancreatitis or splenectomy, those with diabetes, the very old, and the very young) are at high risk for infection. ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:13 PM JERSEY COLLEGE 4 Treatment may include adjusting immune-suppressing medications or administering antifungal medications. (18) Visceral leishmaniasis - Answer️️ -serious form; fatal if untreated. (18) Cutaneous leishmaniasis - Answer️️ -common form; sore forms at fly-bite site; long healing period (few months to a year). (18) Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis - Answer️️ -widespread skin lesions; difficult to treat. (18) Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis - Answer️️ -skin ulcers that spread and can cause tissue damage to the nose and mouth. (16) Who first observed microbes on the teeth? - Answer️️ -Van Leeuwenhoek (16) What causes peptic ulcers? - Answer️️ -Helicobacter pylori (16) What is another word for Bacillary dysentery? - Answer