Exam 28: Clinical Microbiology and Immunology

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In the United States, every clinical and research institution requires that workers be protected from ________, a pathogen that is contracted almost exclusively from handling patient specimens (rather than from known exposure or accidents).

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Which of the following is a cause of drug-specific resistance in disease-causing organisms?

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________ defines the lowest quantity of an antigen that can be detected in a serological test.

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Question 43

Which of the following is a mechanism of aminoglycosides?

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Question 44

Why are rabies shots given to domestic animals yearly and not just once in the animalʹs lifetime?

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Question 45

The component that enriches chocolate agar is

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Question 46

A recombinant-vector virus would still be effective if the vaccinia virus is unable to express the cloned gene as an antigenic protein.

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Question 47

DNA vaccines are bacterial plasmids that contain cloned DNA with an antigen of interest are unlike attenuated vaccines because there is no chance of causing disease.

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Question 48

Indirect EIA is used to detect

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Question 49

New vaccine strategies resulting from progress in biochemistry and molecular biology include the production of

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Question 50

Fluorescent antibodies can be used to separate mixtures of cells into relatively pure populations with a fluorescence cytometer.

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Question 51

Which of the following immunological tests would allow the specific identification of a microorganism directly in infected tissues?

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Question 52

In the EIA test for HIV infection, the microtiter plate is coated with disrupted HIV particles.

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Question 53

Protein A has a strong affinity for

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Question 54

Blood agar is an example of amedium that supports the growth of many microbes. Medium that supports a wide variety of growth is called ________ medium.

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Question 55

When using the EIA test for HIV screening, BOTH false negative and false positive results are possible.

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Question 56

Vaccines can be developed from synthetic peptides.

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Question 57

Most drug-resistant bacteria isolated from patients contain a(n)

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Question 58

Two common or important bacterial pathogens found in the blood are

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Question 59

An antigen must be at least ________ amino acids long to be effective in a vaccine.

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Exam 28: Clinical Microbiology and Immunology

In the United States, every clinical and research institution requires that workers be protected from ________, a pathogen that is contracted almost exclusively from handling patient specimens (rather than from known exposure or accidents).

Which of the following is a cause of drug-specific resistance in disease-causing organisms?

________ defines the lowest quantity of an antigen that can be detected in a serological test.

Which of the following is a mechanism of aminoglycosides?

Why are rabies shots given to domestic animals yearly and not just once in the animalʹs lifetime?

The component that enriches chocolate agar is

A recombinant-vector virus would still be effective if the vaccinia virus is unable to express the cloned gene as an antigenic protein.

DNA vaccines are bacterial plasmids that contain cloned DNA with an antigen of interest are unlike attenuated vaccines because there is no chance of causing disease.

Indirect EIA is used to detect

New vaccine strategies resulting from progress in biochemistry and molecular biology include the production of

Fluorescent antibodies can be used to separate mixtures of cells into relatively pure populations with a fluorescence cytometer.

Which of the following immunological tests would allow the specific identification of a microorganism directly in infected tissues?

In the EIA test for HIV infection, the microtiter plate is coated with disrupted HIV particles.

Protein A has a strong affinity for

Blood agar is an example of amedium that supports the growth of many microbes. Medium that supports a wide variety of growth is called ________ medium.

When using the EIA test for HIV screening, BOTH false negative and false positive results are possible.

Vaccines can be developed from synthetic peptides.

Most drug-resistant bacteria isolated from patients contain a(n)

Two common or important bacterial pathogens found in the blood are

An antigen must be at least ________ amino acids long to be effective in a vaccine.

The Microbial World

Microbial Cell Structure and Function

Microbial Metabolism

Molecular Information Flow and Protein Processing

Microbial Growth and Its Control

Microbial Regulatory Systems

Molecular Biology of Microbial Growth

Viruses and Their Replication

Microbial Systems Biology

Viral Genomics, Diversity, and Ecology

Genetics of Bacteria and Archaea

Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

Microbial Evolution and Systematics

Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms

Functional Diversity of Microorganisms

Diversity of Bacteria

Diversity of Archaea

Diversity of Microbial Eukarya

Taking the Measure of Microbial Systems

Microbial Ecosystems

Nutrient Cycles

Microbiology of the Built Environment

Microbial Symbioses

Microbial Symbioses with Humans

Microbial Infection and Pathogenesis

Innate Immunity: Broadly Specific Host Defenses

Adaptive Immunity: Highly Specific Host Defenses

Epidemiology

Person-to-Person Bacterial and Viral Diseases

Vectorborne and Soilborne Bacterial and Viral Diseases

Waterborne and Foodborne Bacterial and Viral Diseases

Eukaryotic Pathogens: Fungi, Protozoans, and Helminths

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