Exam 28: Clinical Microbiology and Epidemiology

Gaëtan Dugas is frequently referred to as the individual who began the spread of HIV within the gay male community in North America in the 1970s. In epidemiology, he is known as

A defining commonality between biosafety risk group II handling techniques and a biosafety IV facility would be the need for

Which of the following is NOT true of newer clinical techniques compared to conventional techniques that require culturing?

Which of the following would NOT be a task for an epidemiologist?

The use of a laminar flow hood when studying the organism Francisella tularensis is an example of level ________ biological safety.

Why are clinical viral diseases more challenging to diagnose than are clinical bacterial diseases?

Shigella sonnei is the cause of an infection commonly seen in infant day-care facilities due to

How can reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) be used to determine the presence and viral load of HIV infection?

Point-of-care diagnostics are advantageous for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Catalase-positive organisms such as ________ produce ________ as end products when exposed to hydrogen peroxide.

Compare and contrast the epidemiological terms "endemic," "epidemic," and "pandemic." Give an example of each to support your answer.

Haemophilius influenzae requires ________ and ________ for confirmatory growth of an organism in vitro.

Once cultured, bacteria from septic infections or urine can be quickly identified by MALDI-TOF-MS. What is this technique and how does it work?

Collaborators necessary to solve and control a human epidemic include

Tuberculosis has become a reemerging pathogen today in large part due to

Collection of specimen samples from places on or in the body that contain normal flora usually requires

Laboratory analysis of a patient suspected to have bacterial meningitis would be performed with which type of sample?

Which of the following genera of bacteria would NOT change the color of N,N,N',N'7' -tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine to purple/black upon exposure?

When sampling clinical specimens to determine the cause of a disease, samples are often plated on selective media. The reason for this is to

The graph shown below diagrams the number of cases of a disease versus time. The high peak near the right-hand side would be considered a(n)