TEST BANK FOR MICROBIOLOGY FOR SURGICAL
TECHNOLOGISTS | FROM QUESTION TO PERFECTION|
STUDY WITH CONFIDENCE!
Course Code:
Course Title:
Programme:
Academic Year: 2026/2027.
Duration: 2 Hours.
Total Marks: 100.
Candidate Instructions:
1) Write your Registration Number on every answer booklet used.
2) Answer ALL questions in Section A and ANY TWO (2) questions in Section B.
3) Read each question carefully before answering.
4) Begin each question on a new page.
5) The marks for each question are indicated in brackets.
6) This paper consists of several printed pages, including this page.
7) Ensure your copy is complete before the examination begins.
8) Unauthorized materials and communication with other candidates are not permitted.
Turn Over.
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, Robert Hooke Answer: Designed telescopes and later a compound microscope in the mid-1600s
and published 'Micrographia' where he was the first to use the term 'cell' to describe the spaces
he saw in cork when magnified.
Louis Pasteur Answer: A renowned scientist in France in the late 1800s who worked to disprove
the long-held belief in abiogenesis and was commissioned by French Emperor Napoleon III to
create a scientific study on spoilage of beer and wine, leading to the creation of the technique of
pasteurization.
June Almeida Answer: A talented lab technician who developed a method of using antibodies to
isolate viruses with the use of the electron microscope and was the first to describe what would
become the very well recognized coronavirus shape.
Anthrax Answer: Letters laced with anthrax were mailed to the New York Post and NBC, and
later to several US Congressmen, resulting in office workers being sickened and several US
postal workers dying from inhalation anthrax.
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Answer: A special
section within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) charged with making and
reviewing guidelines for healthcare workers to prevent disease transmission.
Schick test Answer: A skin test developed in 1913 to demonstrate immunity or susceptibility to
diphtheria.
Abiogenesis Answer: An early belief that living things spontaneously arise from non-living
materials.
Animalcules Answer: The term used by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to describe the tiny
organisms he saw with a single-lens microscope.
Pandemic Answer: An extensive, possibly worldwide disease event, such as the 1918 Spanish
Flu or the COVID-19 outbreak.
Typhoid fever Answer: Mary Mallon, later given the name "Typhoid Mary" was placed in
forced confinement when it was found that as a cook had exposed numerous individuals who
contracted typhoid fever and at least two died and when she was released, she continued to work
and spread disease so was forcibly quarantined until her death.
Koch's postulates Answer: Robert Koch established a sequence of steps for experimentally
proving that a specific microbe causes a specific disease, later called Koch's postulates.
Variolation Answer: Early attempts at vaccinating healthy individuals with small amounts of
fluid from the pustules of infected hosts proved ineffective and what originated in India and
China known as variolation did not induce mild cases and immunity as hoped but instead, often
caused serious infections that spread to others.
APPHIA – Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
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TECHNOLOGISTS | FROM QUESTION TO PERFECTION|
STUDY WITH CONFIDENCE!
Course Code:
Course Title:
Programme:
Academic Year: 2026/2027.
Duration: 2 Hours.
Total Marks: 100.
Candidate Instructions:
1) Write your Registration Number on every answer booklet used.
2) Answer ALL questions in Section A and ANY TWO (2) questions in Section B.
3) Read each question carefully before answering.
4) Begin each question on a new page.
5) The marks for each question are indicated in brackets.
6) This paper consists of several printed pages, including this page.
7) Ensure your copy is complete before the examination begins.
8) Unauthorized materials and communication with other candidates are not permitted.
Turn Over.
APPHIA – Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
1
, Robert Hooke Answer: Designed telescopes and later a compound microscope in the mid-1600s
and published 'Micrographia' where he was the first to use the term 'cell' to describe the spaces
he saw in cork when magnified.
Louis Pasteur Answer: A renowned scientist in France in the late 1800s who worked to disprove
the long-held belief in abiogenesis and was commissioned by French Emperor Napoleon III to
create a scientific study on spoilage of beer and wine, leading to the creation of the technique of
pasteurization.
June Almeida Answer: A talented lab technician who developed a method of using antibodies to
isolate viruses with the use of the electron microscope and was the first to describe what would
become the very well recognized coronavirus shape.
Anthrax Answer: Letters laced with anthrax were mailed to the New York Post and NBC, and
later to several US Congressmen, resulting in office workers being sickened and several US
postal workers dying from inhalation anthrax.
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Answer: A special
section within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) charged with making and
reviewing guidelines for healthcare workers to prevent disease transmission.
Schick test Answer: A skin test developed in 1913 to demonstrate immunity or susceptibility to
diphtheria.
Abiogenesis Answer: An early belief that living things spontaneously arise from non-living
materials.
Animalcules Answer: The term used by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to describe the tiny
organisms he saw with a single-lens microscope.
Pandemic Answer: An extensive, possibly worldwide disease event, such as the 1918 Spanish
Flu or the COVID-19 outbreak.
Typhoid fever Answer: Mary Mallon, later given the name "Typhoid Mary" was placed in
forced confinement when it was found that as a cook had exposed numerous individuals who
contracted typhoid fever and at least two died and when she was released, she continued to work
and spread disease so was forcibly quarantined until her death.
Koch's postulates Answer: Robert Koch established a sequence of steps for experimentally
proving that a specific microbe causes a specific disease, later called Koch's postulates.
Variolation Answer: Early attempts at vaccinating healthy individuals with small amounts of
fluid from the pustules of infected hosts proved ineffective and what originated in India and
China known as variolation did not induce mild cases and immunity as hoped but instead, often
caused serious infections that spread to others.
APPHIA – Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
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