Take note of the inside cover of your textbook; with only a few exceptions, G- bacteria end with the letter “a” and G+ bacteria end with other letters.

 

M. tuberculosis                  No vaccine

M. leprae                    Western Blot

Legionella                   Erythromycin

Smallpox                     Carbenicillin

Dengue                       Rifampin + INH

Ebola                        Penicillin G

AIDS                         Cephalosporin III

S. aureus                    Rifampin

S. pyogenes                  Hemorrhagic fever

Legionella                   Methicillin

Pseudomonas                  Rifampin

Yersinia                     vaccinia virus

 

1. Condyloma accuminata associates with what?

2. Which measles crosses the placenta – German or Morbilli?

3. T or F - Marburg first appeared in Kikwit, Zaire.

4. How many people in the U.S. are HIV+?

5. What part of S. pyogenes is cross-reactive (links with) heart valve glycoproteins?

6. What extracellular product of S. pyogenes causes scarlet fever?

7. T or F - The Mantoux test indicates the presence of TB tubercles.

8. T or F - TB can is hereditary.

9. T or F - Leprosy tends to run in a families.

10. Which of the following are treatments for TB (more than one answer):

a.     streptomycin b. Ethambutol + INH c. penicillin G

d. Rifampin + INH e. All the above

11. T or F - Bacille Calmette Guerin is useful in treating people that are suffering with TB and has approval for use in England.

12. T or F - Most cases of Leprosy in the U.S. are imported peoples from other countries.

13. Pseudomonas is:

     a. G+ cocci b. G+ rod c. G- cocci d. G+ rod

14. The following are useful in genetic engineering (more than one answer):

a.     S. aureus  b. P. aeruginosa  c. M. contagiosum

d. S. pneumoniae  e. S. pyogenes

15. The following are nosocomially transmitted (more than one answer):

a.     Klebsiella  b. Molluscum Contagiousum c. Legionnaire’s

d. Leprosy  e. Pseudomonas

16. The last outbreak of plague in the U.S. was:

1925, 1896, 1974, 1945, 1904

17. T or F - Pallisading arrangement of cells appearing as shiny dark, black colonies on Mueller-Hinton media is Diptheria.

 

lesions around mouth         Smallpox

loss of special senses       Dengue

breakbone fever              AIDS

African green monkey         Rubeola

Koplik’s spots               Mulloscum contagiosum

 

Month to years               AIDS

~20 years                    Warts

Lasts for life               Hanson’s disease

 

1.     Warts

2. German

3. F - Ebola

4. 5M+

5. Group A carbohydrate

6. Erythrogenic toxin

7. F – only shows exposure to TB bacillus.

8. F

9. T

10. b and d

11. F – BCG is a vaccine for prevention - not cure.

12. T

13. G- rod

14. b and d

15. a and e

16. 1925

17. F – Tellurite media