BIOD 210 MODULE 5 COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ How does rheumatic fever cause damage to the heart?
Answer: It has similar antigens, so results in autoimmune reaction
where immune system attacks heart tissues
◉ What is rheumatic fever treated with?
Answer: Penicillin
◉ S. septicemia is what kind of disease?
Answer: Group B
◉ S. septicemia is caused by ...
Answer: Infection of the lungs, abdomen, urinary tract,
meningitis/endocarditis
◉ What are some symptoms of S. septicemia?
Answer: Fever, chills, rapid breathing, increased HR and
lymphangitis
,◉ What are the treatments for S. septicemia?
Answer: Antibiotcis, IV fluids, oxygen
◉ S. septicemia may also be caused by ...
Answer: E. coli, pseudomonas, klebsiella, and S. aureus
◉ What are the three stages of sepsis?
Answer: Mild, severe (moderate), and septic shock (severe)
◉ What occurs with septic shock?
Answer: BP drops, causing tissue damage/organ failure
◉ What does streptococcus contain for virulence?
Answer: M protein and hyaluronic capsule
◉ Hyaluronic capsule increases pathogenicity of microbe how?
Answer: It is sticky, which increases adhesion and protects bacteria
◉ Streptococcal pharyngitis is cause by ...
Answer: S. pyogenes
◉ How is streptococcal pharyngitis transmitted?
,Answer: By asymptomatic carriers via resp. droplets
◉ Staphylococcus characteristics
Answer: Gram-positive, round, organizes in clusters, facultative
anaerobe, can grow in bile salts
◉ What kind of hemolysis is exhibited by staph?
Answer: Beta
◉ Catalase/coagulase of staph
Answer: Positive for both
◉ Staph is known as a ... bacteria
Answer: Commensal (doesn't harm or benefit)
◉ Staphylococcus is the causative agent of which diseases?
Answer: Folliculits, scalded skin syndrome, impetigo, conjunctivitis,
and ophthalmia neonatorum
◉ Folliculitis causes lesions in follicles known as ...
Answer: Pustules (large pus-filled lesions)
, ◉ Pustules can progress to ... and then ...
Answer: Furuncle; carbuncle
◉ Scalded skin syndrome affects ...
Answer: Young children/infants
◉ Pyogenic
Answer: Pus-producing
◉ In scalded skin syndrome, what do skins lesions have?
Answer: Exfoliative endotoxins with no bacteria
◉ Impetigo is classified as ...
Answer: Childhood skins disease
◉ Impetigo affects what population?
Answer: 2-5 year olds
◉ Characteristics of impetigo
Answer: Fluid-filled red sores that are itchy and discomforting
◉ How does impetigo spread?
EXAM SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ How does rheumatic fever cause damage to the heart?
Answer: It has similar antigens, so results in autoimmune reaction
where immune system attacks heart tissues
◉ What is rheumatic fever treated with?
Answer: Penicillin
◉ S. septicemia is what kind of disease?
Answer: Group B
◉ S. septicemia is caused by ...
Answer: Infection of the lungs, abdomen, urinary tract,
meningitis/endocarditis
◉ What are some symptoms of S. septicemia?
Answer: Fever, chills, rapid breathing, increased HR and
lymphangitis
,◉ What are the treatments for S. septicemia?
Answer: Antibiotcis, IV fluids, oxygen
◉ S. septicemia may also be caused by ...
Answer: E. coli, pseudomonas, klebsiella, and S. aureus
◉ What are the three stages of sepsis?
Answer: Mild, severe (moderate), and septic shock (severe)
◉ What occurs with septic shock?
Answer: BP drops, causing tissue damage/organ failure
◉ What does streptococcus contain for virulence?
Answer: M protein and hyaluronic capsule
◉ Hyaluronic capsule increases pathogenicity of microbe how?
Answer: It is sticky, which increases adhesion and protects bacteria
◉ Streptococcal pharyngitis is cause by ...
Answer: S. pyogenes
◉ How is streptococcal pharyngitis transmitted?
,Answer: By asymptomatic carriers via resp. droplets
◉ Staphylococcus characteristics
Answer: Gram-positive, round, organizes in clusters, facultative
anaerobe, can grow in bile salts
◉ What kind of hemolysis is exhibited by staph?
Answer: Beta
◉ Catalase/coagulase of staph
Answer: Positive for both
◉ Staph is known as a ... bacteria
Answer: Commensal (doesn't harm or benefit)
◉ Staphylococcus is the causative agent of which diseases?
Answer: Folliculits, scalded skin syndrome, impetigo, conjunctivitis,
and ophthalmia neonatorum
◉ Folliculitis causes lesions in follicles known as ...
Answer: Pustules (large pus-filled lesions)
, ◉ Pustules can progress to ... and then ...
Answer: Furuncle; carbuncle
◉ Scalded skin syndrome affects ...
Answer: Young children/infants
◉ Pyogenic
Answer: Pus-producing
◉ In scalded skin syndrome, what do skins lesions have?
Answer: Exfoliative endotoxins with no bacteria
◉ Impetigo is classified as ...
Answer: Childhood skins disease
◉ Impetigo affects what population?
Answer: 2-5 year olds
◉ Characteristics of impetigo
Answer: Fluid-filled red sores that are itchy and discomforting
◉ How does impetigo spread?
