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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MICROBIOLOGY BIO 3713 EXAM STUDY GUIDE {VERSION 2} 1. What is the portal of entry? ANS: How the disease infects the new host 2. What is the portal of exit? ANS: How the disease leaves the infected individual 3. What is epidemiology? ANS: Study of the distribution of a disease (or an event [what], and their determinants [how], in a given population [who] and location [where] during a defined period [when]) 4. What is Dr. John Snow (Father of Epidemiology) credi...

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MICROBIOLOGY BIO 3713 EXAM STUDY GUIDE {VERSION 1} 1. Define Microbiology ANS: Study of microscopic agents - 95% of microbes do NOT cause disease 2. What are the two kinds of a cellular microbial agents? (non-cellular, lack cell features) ANS: • Prions • Viruses 3. What is a prion? ANS: Infectious proteins with no genetic material 4. What is a virus? ANS: Obligate intracellular parasite (cannot replicate without a host) with either RNA or DNA as genome ...

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MICROBIOLOGY BIO 3713 EXAM STUDY GUIDE {VERSION 4} 1. What is a facultative anaerobe? ANS: Increased growth in the presence of oxygen - both aerobic and anaerobic 2. What is an example of a facultative anaerobe? ANS: • Streptococcus • Staphylococcus • Enterobacteriaceae • MRSA • VRE 3. What is an obligate anaerobe? ANS: Can only survive is oxygen is absent - will die in the presence of O2 4. What is an example of an obligate anaerobe? ANS: Clostrid...

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MICROBIOLOGY BIO 3713 EXAM STUDY GUIDE {VERSION 3} 1. What are the indirect costs of HAIs? ANS: • Loss of productivity (someone calls in sick) • Loss of business income • Lawsuits (medical malpractice) 2. Which disease had the biggest economic impact of HAIs? ANS: SARS - $30-50 billion USD 3. What is an agent? ANS: The cause of an infectious disease (microbial toxins, bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, parasites, prions) 4. What is a host? ANS: A livi...