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Q: Besides syphilis, what other diseases are caused by bacteria in thegenus Treponema?
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Q: What public health conditions allow for outbreaks of typhoidfever?
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Q: Why do healthy adults usually not contract Clostridium difficileinfections?
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Q: Why is Taenia solium a more dangerous infection than Taenia saginata?
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Q: Contrast the two forms of leprosy.
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Q: What food is a common source of Salmonella infections?
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Why do you think the slow growth rate of M. leprae makes leprosy treatment more difficult?
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- Tuberculoid leprosy 1) may have complications including secondary infections, kidney, or respiratory failure. O 2) is the most disfiguring. is characterized by a large number of acid fast bacilli in the infected tissues O3) (multibacillary). O4) causes asymmetrical, shallow skin lesions with loss of pain sensation. O 5) All of these choices are correct.List several differences between lepromatous and tuberculoidleprosy.Which of the following is not applicable to Listeria monocytogenes, or to the disease it causes, listeriosis? A) O most people with healthy immune systems are not affected by it, or show only mild symptoms of disease B) Ot can grow at refrigeration temperature C) O it is a facultative intracellular pathogen D) O polymerization of actin on its cell surface allow it to move E) O listeriosis is typically transmitted by an insect vector
- All of the following pertain to listeriosis, except 1) intrauterine infection usually results in fetal death. 2) enterotoxin of the organism causes symptoms. 3) it causes a serious septicemia and meningitis in the elderly, immunocompromised, and infants. U 4) it causes symptoms of fever, diarrhea, and sore throat. 5) adequate pasteurization and thorough cooking of food can improve prevention.Which of these statements concerning the causative agent of listeriosis is false?a) It can cause meningitis during the first month of life.b) It is a Gram-positive rod that can grow in refrigerated food.c) It is usually transmitted by the respiratory route.d) Infection can result in bacteremia.e) It is widespread in natural waters and vegetation.The clinical features of varicella rash are() A) is densely distributed throughout the body B) Mainly limbs C) Mainly lower limbs and buttocks D) Begins behind the ears,at the neck,along the hairline and develops throughout the body E) Centripetal distribution
- Why is it not possible to use Koch’s postulates to show that Treponema pallidum causes syphilis?Why does Helicobacter pylori cause ulceractions in the lining of the Stomach? 1)The microbes secrete a toxin that prevents the host from detecting invasion of the microbe and thus allows it to thrive in the stomach and damage the host cells. 2)After invasion of the microbe in the cells lining the stomach, they are no longer able to produce mucous to protect the host cells from acid erosion 3)The microbe produces an enzyme that causes the cell to produce potent digestive enzymes that erode the stomach lining. 4)Once the microbe has entered the stomach, it releases digestive enzymes that degrade the mucous secreting cells.Which of these statements about tetanus is true?a) It can start from a bee sting.b) Immunization is carried out using tiny doses of killed C. tetani.c) Those who recover from the disease are immune for life.d) Tetanus immune globulin does not prevent the disease.e) It is easy to avoid exposure to spores of the causative organism.
- Why are staphylococcal infections becoming increasingly difficult to treat?a) How to treated and protection from diphtheria and tetanus diseases? b) What is the name of Pathogen that cause these two diseases?Why might it be possible to have high abundance ofPropionibacterium acnes without developing acne vulgaris?