Latest 2023 / 2024 | BIOS 242 Final Exam Review Fundamentals of Microbiology with Lab - Chamberlain
Has a pseudo membrane, what is the bacteria and what is the disease?• Corynebacterium diphtheria bacteria/ diphtheria
Unique poison • Exotoxin
How do you prevent diphtheria?• dTAP vaccine
What is unique about the dTAP vaccine?• Toxoid vaccine
Diphtheria is what?• Exotoxin
Patient with diphtheria, is there something you can do?• Report to CDC, CDC will send artificial passive immunity (anti toxin/antibodies) 1 / 3
What antibiotic is effective for a purple stained bacterium?• Penicillin
Does corynebacterial diphtheria form an endospore?• No
Does bacillus form endospores?• Yes
Multivalent childhood vaccine
• MMR
Live attenuated vaccine
• MMR
Pathognomy (unique) to measles • Kolpik spots
What are kolpik spots?• Spots on the inside of the mouth
- types of GENERAL reservoirs
✓ Human
✓ Animal
✓ Nonliving 2 / 3
- types of acquired immunity
✓ Natural active
✓ Natural passive
✓ Artificial passive
✓ Artificial active
Requirement for a disease that is eradicated ✓ No non-human reservoirs
Only disease that has been completely eradicated ✓ Small pox
Disease that is almost eradicated ✓ Polio
What types of pathogens are polio and small pox?✓ A cellular
Viruses are what?✓ A cellular pathogen
Only infects plants ✓ Viroid
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