Deck 40: Zoonotic Diseases

Question 1

How do humans often become infected with leptospirosis?

A) Directly from animal urine
B) Directly from animal feces
C) Directly from animal blood
D) Directly from animal saliva

Answer 1

A

Question 2

If you are bitten by a dog, which of the following organisms is most likely to cause an infection at the site of the bite?

A) Borrelia burgdorferi
B) Bacillus anthracis
C) Yersinia pestis
D) Pasteurella multocida

Answer 2

D

Question 3

All of the following organisms cause cat-scratch disease in humans, except

A) Bartonella henselae.
B) Bartonella clarridgeiae.
C) Borrelia burgdorferi.
D) Bartonella vinsonii subsp. vinsonii.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What is the most common form of anthrax?

A) Inhalation
B) Cutaneous
C) Gastrointestinal
D) Septicemic

Question 5

Zoonotic infections that spread from animal to human, then cannot be transmitted directly to other humans, include all the following, except

A) West Nile virus.
B) Lyme disease.
C) influenza.
D) bubonic plague.

Question 6

Bacillus anthracis is a natural pathogen for what types of animals?

A) Herbivores
B) Carnivores
C) Felines
D) Voles

Question 7

Patients who develop Weil's syndrome have all the following symptoms, except

A) hemolysis.
B) jaundice.
C) congestive heart failure.
D) renal failure.

Question 8

What is the classic symptom of bubonic plague?

A) Painful swollen lymph nodes
B) Febrile illness
C) Rash on the trunk and limbs
D) Septic shock

Question 9

In the first phase of leptospirosis, humans exhibit all the following symptoms, except

A) sudden temperature spikes.
B) hepatitis.
C) vivid pink eyes.
D) severe headaches.

Question 10

Zoonotic infections that spread from animal to human and then can be transmitted human to human, include all the following, except

A) human immunodeficiency virus.
B) tularemia.
C) Ebola virus.
D) severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Question 11

What is another name for brucellosis?

A) Glanders
B) Anthrax
C) Lyme disease
D) Undulant fever

Question 12

What disease is known as the woolsorter's disease?

A) Glanders
B) Venezuelan equine encephalitis
C) West Nile disease
D) Anthrax

Question 13

What is a zoonotic infection?

A) An infection that can naturally spread from animals to humans
B) An infection that occurs from being in close contact with humans, such as college dorms or military barracks
C) An infection acquired at any health care facility, especially hospitals
D) An infection acquired in the community

Question 14

Even though this organism is part of the canine and feline normal oral biota, most infections occur in patients that have had a splenectomy, have cancer, or abuse drugs. What organism is this?

A) Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
B) Capnocytophaga canimorsus
C) Yersinia pestis
D) Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 15

What finding is characteristic of early Lyme disease?

A) Photosensitivity and headache
B) Fever and septic arthritis
C) Bull's-eye rash and flulike symptoms
D) Petechiae and endocarditis

Question 16

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae normally infects all the following animals, except

A) rodents.
B) swine.
C) poultry.
D) fish.

Question 17

Bacillus anthracis produces all the following virulence factors, except

A) lethal factor.
B) lipopolysaccharide.
C) glutamic acid.
D) edema factor.

Question 18

All of the following symptoms are among common presentations in tularemia, except

A) ulceroglandular
B) oropharyngeal
C) cholera-like
D) typhoidal

Question 19

What are the natural hosts for the plague-causing organism, Yersinia pestis?

A) Birds
B) Deer
C) Monkeys
D) Rats

Question 20

What disease is transmitted by Ixodes dammini?

A) Plague
B) Lyme disease
C) Rocky Mountain spotted fever
D) Colorado tick fever

Question 21

Rickettsial organisms, which cause disease in humans, are transmitted by which of the following methods?

A) Arthropod vectors
B) Aerosols
C) Fomite contact
D) Contact with body fluids

Question 22

Pathogens within the family Anaplasmataceae infect which cell type in humans?

A) Lymphocytes
B) Epithelial cells
C) Erythrocytes
D) Phagocytes