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True or False? 14. Demercentor spp are the vectors for Borrelia burgdoferi , Bab

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True or False?

14. Demercentor spp are the vectors for Borrelia burgdoferi , Babesia microti , and Anaplasma

15. Rubella was introduced to Hawaiian islands with devastating results.

16. Rhizobium bacteria form a symbiotic relationship with alfalfa and other legumes

17. Schistosoma japonicum lives in veins that drain the large intestine

F18. Phagocytosis does occur in prokaryotes as far as we know.

19. Prions are usually destroyed by autoclaving and most disinfectants

20. GSS, Kuru, mad cow, Creuztfelt Jakob, scrapie, pinta., chromic wasting diseases and fatal familial insomnia are prion diseases

21. Antibiotics are often made in the stationary phase of growth of bacteria.

22. The prodromal period corresponds to the early log phase of growth in bacteria

23. Heat shock, electroporation . and calcium salts are used to help bacteria take up foreign DNA

24. The autoclave parameters are 121 degrees C , 15psi at 15 minutes and cannot be altered

25. Mycobacteria are usually harder to kill than gram negative bacteria on environmental surfaces

26. A plasmid has proteins , calcium ,keratin dipicolinic acid and almost no water and a mini-cell about .1 microns in diameter.

27. The following could occur in bacterial endospores: resistance genes and genes for toxins.

28. Several known viruses like, the Mimivirus, and Pandora virus have more genes than some bacteria like Chlamydias

29. RNA polymerase does have proof reading ability, but not as good as DNA polymerase

30. The outer membrane of gram positive bacteria has highly antigenic lipopolysaccharides which can cause a septic shock that kills hundreds of thousands of people in US every year

31. The capsule of bacteria is always made of carbohydrates.

32. Axial filaments are found in Borrelia and Treponema and Bordetella species

33. Cyanobacteria, today, are usually oxygenic phototrophs many of which can fix atmospheric nitrogen

34. T even bacteriophages need to undergo uncoating in host cell because of their injection mechanism

35 Phage therapy has been tried before, at least twice, D”Herrelle and the Russians and still being used in Russia.

36 St Vitus’s dance is a sequela to streptococcal infections that temporarily damages the basal ganglia

37. Mycobacterium avium, may live in your shower curtain and can cause serious disease in the HIV patient

38.Mycobacterium bovis was main reason for pasteurizing milk

39. Candida is an opportunist and can cause both oral, skin and intestinal infections

40. Marburg, Ebola , Hanta virus, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, and Lassa fever are not vector borne diseases

41. Isoniazid , pyrazinamide, streptomycin   ethambutol would probably be effective in treating TB

42. Dengue fever is carried by Anopheles spp.

43.Cat scratch fever is often mild to moderate disease, but can be very serious , especially in children , there are about 122,000 of cases every year in US

44. Water and moist soil are reservoirs for Necator americanus ,Ancyostoma duodenale and Strogyloides stercoralis

45. Amphotericin B is a good example of selective toxicity

46. Metronidazole can be used for Entamoeba histolytica and Clostridium difficle , but not Giardia

47. Disinfectants and antiseptics are designed to reduce microbial populations but not necessarily sterilize.

48. Pasteur may deserve credit for saving the French wine , chicken and silk industry.

49. Pasteur tried to make a vaccine against anthrax and ended up with what would become the tuberculin test

50. Biofilms can occur in medical tubing, the middle ear, and on your teeth

51. The following all have capsules: Streptococcus pneumonia, Haemophilus influenzae, Cryptococcus neoformans , Yersinia pestis

52. The most common mode of action of antifungals is interfering with cell wall integrity.

53. Ethambutol and INH have amongst the broadest spectrums of activities know, because they interfere with mycolic acid synthesis.

54. Clotrimazole, capsofungin griseofulvin, miconazole, ketoconazole, Lotrimin, and tolnaftate are antifungals

55. Biaxin might be prescribed for tapeworm parasitism, although albendazole could also be prescibed

56. Avian flu has occurred in the human race before, such as the Spanish Flu.

57. Green biotechnology has used Agrobacterium tumefaciens. to insert genes into animals

58. An effective vaccine for Syphilis has been produced .

59. An attenuated vaccine is able to multiply in host and may cause the disease as well as give it to others

60. Sabine made an inactive virus vaccine for polio

61. Salk made an attenuated vaccine for polio

62. Pasteur made a vaccine for chicken cholera, anthrax , and rabies

63. The Wasserman test for syphilis was a complement fixation tests

64 The southern blotting is a way of comparing similarities in antigens between two organisms.

65. Electrophoresis can be used to separate DNA fragments in a sample.

66. Coccidioidomycosis is concentrated in NW US, but has a relatively low mortality rate

67. Dinoflagellates , like Alexandrium , can cause red tide and paralytic shellfish poisoning

68. Viroids are naked RNA parasites of animals

69. Transposons , are found in most organisms, including bacteria

70. RNA polymerase can only move in the 5 prime to 3 prime direction.

71. Exotoxins are heat stabile and usually lipopolysaccharides.

72. Diphtheria toxin is an example of an exotoxin created by lysogenic conversion

proximal73. The lipopolysaccharides coat of gram positive bacteria has killed millions of people.

74. Single stranded DNA is found in the Hepadnaviridae

75. Some viruses have double stranded RNA, such as the Retroviridae

Explanation / Answer

14. Demercentor spp are the vectors for Borrelia burgdoferi , Babesia microti , and Anaplasma --------> TRUE (Demercentor species or Americal dog ticks act as vectors of many disease causing bacteria including Borrelia burgdoferi , Babesia microti , and Anaplasma).

15. Rubella was introduced to Hawaiian islands with devastating results --------> TRUE

16. Rhizobium bacteria form a symbiotic relationship with alfalfa and other legumes -------> TRUE (Rhizobium species are nitrogen fixing soil bacteria that form a symbiotic relationship with alfalfa and other legumes).

17. Schistosoma japonicum lives in veins that drain the large intestine ---------> TRUE (S. japonicum and S. masoni lives mostly in veins that drain the large intestine)

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