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| The main specific Immune response of the host against intracellular bacteria (bacteria that do invade the host cells) and/or viruses is: |
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| Who was the first to theorize that a mosquito was a carrier of the organism causing Yellow Fever? |
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All of the following statements about Hemaglutinin and Nueraminidase are true Except:
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A.Influenza viruses are classified into type A, B and C based on the combination of the H and N.*****
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-The genes producing these surface proteins are produced by segmented genome
-Hemagglutinin is to attach to and infect the target cell.
-Neuraminidase is release the newly assembled virus to be released from the infected cell |
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The 'Tuskegee Experiment' was conducted on 600 black men- some were infected with syphilis and some did not have the disease. The purpose of this study was:(Were):
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To record the natural history of syphilis
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| Among the Arboviruses, Dengue fever secured a unique status because: |
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| The repeated exposure has very serious effect than the first exposure |
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| The Innate Immunity is a branch of: |
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| neither the humoral immunity system or the cell mediated immunity system |
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| The influenza epidemic of 1918 in the USA was the result of: |
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| Who was the scientist who exposed himself to mosquitoes infected with yellow fever in an attempt to study the cause and the transmission of yellow fever? |
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| The immune system of a patient infected with syphilis will rely mainly on which of the following to combat the disease? |
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| During repeated epidemics and because of evolution pressures, the germ causing disease becomes: |
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| During the Black Death, In which of these cities were the first three houses walled up, entombing both the dead and the living, the sick and the well? |
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| Although it was not proven, which animal pox virus scientists believe that Edward Jenner used in his vaccination experiment? |
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When a person is infected with small pox, the body uses which of the following method to fight the causative agent?
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| Upon establishment of germs as the cause of infectious diseases, scientists advocated the destruction of these microbes by exploiting the difference in nature of these germs and the host. This may be achieved by having agents acting only on the germs and not the host or what is known as "selective toxicity". THe latter term was coined by: |
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All of the following diseases are zoonotic except:
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the correct answer not listed
All are zoonotic:
Rabies
Tuberculosis
Anthrax |
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| The action of antisera relies on: |
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None of the above
does not rely on these:
-stimullating the innate immune response
-stimulating the humoral (antibody) immune response
-Stimulating the cellular immune response |
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| Poliomyelitis can be treated with: |
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None of the above
Cant be treated with these:
ANtibiotics
Bed rest
Exercise
or both a and c |
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| During the 1976 Swine Flu epidemic, the total population vaccination program, was terminated because: |
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| The association Guillain-Barre syndrome with some cases of vaccinated people (GBS) |
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| The shores of the Mediterranean Sea were the fertile soil for many early civilizations which shared some of their believes and practices of medicine. Some the early physicians of these civilizations were revered as gods. Who was the egyptian physician among the following: |
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none of the above
not these:
Cheops
Asclepius
Hippocrates
Claudius Galen |
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The Antigenic drift in the influenza virus genome will result in:
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none of the above
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-Variable level in pathogenicity depending on the level of the bird population
-Variable level in pathogenicity depending on the level of the pig population
-Decreased pathogenicity and morality among the infected population
-increased pathogenicity and mortality among the infected population |
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The world wide spread of malaria in the tropical and subtropical countries is mainly because of all of the following except:
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The right answer is not listed
THese reasons are true:
-the lack of anti-malaria vaccine
- the difficulty of eradication of the female anopheles mosquito, the vector of malaria
-The development of drug-resistant plasmodia
-the moderate climate enhances the breeding of the anopheles mosquito |
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| The male mosquitoes of which of the following species are involved in transmission of yellow fever? |
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None bc it is the female mosquito
the correct answer would be female Aedes spp. |
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| According to the movie Influenza 1918, the first vaccine against this flu epidemic failed because: |
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| The vaccine was against the bacterium haemophilus influanzae |
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