HumpyNasyun Gizmo

• Who developed a system of classifying similar organisms together?

  Carolus Linnaeus
• When did Leeuwenhoek report the existence of protozoa to the Royal Society of London?

  1674
• True or False. There have been accounts of archaea bacteria causing disease?

  False
• Penicillium chrysogenum is what type of fungus?

  mold
• What yeast causes bread to rise and produce alcohol from sugar?

  Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• True or False. Immature Plasmodium is non-motile ?

  False
• Spontaneous generation was promulgated by who?

  Aristotle
• Who experimented on spontaneous generation using decaying meat in sealed and unsealed flasks?

  Redi
• Who experimented using beef gravy and infusions of plant materials in vials sealed with corks?

  Needham
• Who experimented using boiled infusions in flasks with melted necks?

  Spallanzani
• Who experimented using swan necked sterile flasks?

  Pasteur
• Who formulated the germ theory of disease?

  Koch
• Who confirmed that bacterium cause disease?

  Koch
• Who developed the antiseptic technique of using carbolic acid for sterilization?

  Lister
• Who helped develop hospital hygiene during the war?

  Nightingale
• Who is considered the father of vaccination?

  Jenner
• What virus helped develop smallpox vaccination?

  cowpox
• Who is the father of pharmaceutical microbiology?

  Fleming
• Whose study founded infection control and epidemiology?

  Snow
• What form do disease-causing prions take?

  Beta sheets
• What consist of non-pathogenic or potentially pathogenic microorganisms that last for weeks?

  Transient Flora
• What prevents extensive colonization of bacteria in the urethra?

  urine
• Which among these are NOT intrinsic risk factors?

  A.Sexual Practices

  B.Age

  C.Ego

  D.Sexual Partners

  D
• What type of host is required to finish the life cycle of parasites but there is no development?

  paratenic host
• What host is preferred by the parasite?

  host of predilection
• True or False. During the latent stage of the disease, the groundwork has been laid, but there has been no development.

  False
• All of these are factors that increase virulence except?

  A.Toxins

  B.Extracellular enzymes

  C.Ability to cause disease

  D.Adhesion factor

  C
• True or False. Endotoxins cause fever?

  True
• What are characteristics of a disease that is only felt by the patient?

  Symptoms
• What is the manifestation of the disease measured by others, preferably a medical personnel?

  Signs
• Number of new cases / Number of people at risk ?

  Incidence
• Number of cases / total population at a point of time ?

  Prevalence
• What is the shape of an epidemic curve of measles?

  Bell shaped
• What is the shape of an epidemic curve of malaria?

  inverted
• HAI from modern medical procedures?

  Iatrogenic
• The patient dies from an infection caused by S. epidermidis due to the administration of steroids during a medical procedure. What type of HAI?

  Endogenous