Exam 30: Vectorborne and Soilborne Bacterial and Viral Diseases

Which of the following would be the best strategy to prevent the spread of yellow fever and dengue fever into the southern United States?

Both yellow and dengue fever can be prevented by vaccines.

Only high-risk individuals such as scientists working with the organism,livestock workers,and military personnel are vaccinated for anthrax.

If you were exposed to a sick animal that was found to have negri bodies in its nervous system in a postmortem examination,how would you be treated to prevent disease?

Emerging diseases are a problem worldwide,even in highly developed regions of the world.

The primary disease reservoir for plague is

Compare and contrast dengue fever and West Nile fever.Which disease would be easier to eradicate and why?

Which of the following diseases CANNOT easily be controlled by vector elimination?

What type of diseases require biosafety level (BSL)4 procedures and facilities when working with samples that may be infected?

The majority of cases of human plague in the United States occur in the northeastern states.

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a viral respiratory disease caused by contact with

The hantavirus diagnosis can be made from several different types of ELISAs.

Murine toxin is a ________ that plays a role in both the murine and human forms of the disease.

Septicemic plague usually causes death before a diagnosis can be made.

Deer flies (Chrysops spp.)are a major vector in the spread of typhus.

Tetracycline and chloramphenicol are the drugs of choice for the treatment of many of the rickettsial diseases.

Control of certain diseases is nearly impossible,because we cannot

Various Ixodes spp.,as well as various Borrelia spp.,may be involved in the transmission and cause of Lyme disease.

Rabies infection in humans leads to symptoms a few days after exposure.

.Travelers should be vaccinated against yellow fever when traveling to Sub-Saharan Africa or South America.