SURG 1223: Exam 1 Questions With Complete
Solutions
A person who has vulnerable disease or infection
due to ineffective, natural body defenses is
identified by which of the following clinical terms?
Correct Answers Immunocompromised
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek use which term to
describe the tiny organisms he saw with a single
lens microscope? Correct Answers Animalcules
Ignaz Semmelweis trying to educate other
physicians and ways to reduce incidents of which
disease by following handwashing practices of
midwives attending to perinatal patients? Correct
Answers Puerperal fever
In 1907, which disease was spread by women
identified as a carrier, but who refused to stop
working as a cook and eventually was forced into
involuntary quarantine? Correct Answers Typhoid
fever
Standard precautions is a combination of the major
features of universal precautions in which of the
following? Correct Answers Body substance
isolation
, Surgical team members utilize all of the following
to prevent disease transmission, except Correct
Answers Koch's postulates
The healthcare infection control practices advisory
committee develops guidelines for healthcare
workers prevent disease transmission in the
workplace as a special section of which
governmental agency? Correct Answers CDC -
centers for disease control and prevention
The Schick test is a skin test developed in 1913 to
demonstrate immunity or susceptibility to which
disease? Correct Answers Diphtheria
What is the term that describes an early belief that
living things spontaneously arise from nonliving
materials? Correct Answers Abiogenesis
What is the term used for the process of heating
various food such as dairy products just enough to
kill microorganisms but without altering the taste?
Correct Answers Pasteurization
Which agent was sent in letters to the US Postal
Service to media outlets as an active bioterrorism
in 2001? Correct Answers Anthrax
Which early pioneer in microbiology first theorize
that disease was spread through direct contact or
Solutions
A person who has vulnerable disease or infection
due to ineffective, natural body defenses is
identified by which of the following clinical terms?
Correct Answers Immunocompromised
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek use which term to
describe the tiny organisms he saw with a single
lens microscope? Correct Answers Animalcules
Ignaz Semmelweis trying to educate other
physicians and ways to reduce incidents of which
disease by following handwashing practices of
midwives attending to perinatal patients? Correct
Answers Puerperal fever
In 1907, which disease was spread by women
identified as a carrier, but who refused to stop
working as a cook and eventually was forced into
involuntary quarantine? Correct Answers Typhoid
fever
Standard precautions is a combination of the major
features of universal precautions in which of the
following? Correct Answers Body substance
isolation
, Surgical team members utilize all of the following
to prevent disease transmission, except Correct
Answers Koch's postulates
The healthcare infection control practices advisory
committee develops guidelines for healthcare
workers prevent disease transmission in the
workplace as a special section of which
governmental agency? Correct Answers CDC -
centers for disease control and prevention
The Schick test is a skin test developed in 1913 to
demonstrate immunity or susceptibility to which
disease? Correct Answers Diphtheria
What is the term that describes an early belief that
living things spontaneously arise from nonliving
materials? Correct Answers Abiogenesis
What is the term used for the process of heating
various food such as dairy products just enough to
kill microorganisms but without altering the taste?
Correct Answers Pasteurization
Which agent was sent in letters to the US Postal
Service to media outlets as an active bioterrorism
in 2001? Correct Answers Anthrax
Which early pioneer in microbiology first theorize
that disease was spread through direct contact or
