Question 1

Which of the following is the only infectious disease to be successfully eradicated globally?

Accepted Answer

A)   Smallpox
B)   Poliovirus
C)   Dracunculiasis
D)   Tuberculosis A

Question 2

The descriptive epidemiology practice of identifying person, place, and time factors is also used in infectious disease epidemiology to describe an outbreak.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS) was a completely unique type of coronavirus that had not been seen before it caused a pandemic in 2002.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

If you create an epidemic curve for an outbreak and see that there are multiple peaks in the number of infections over time, indicating the disease is spreading from person to person, what type of outbreak has occurred?

Accepted Answer

A)   Point source
B)   Propagated
C)   Continuous source
D)   Vector-borne

Question 5

In infectious disease epidemiology, a case is a person who has been exposed to an infectious agent.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

A vaccine that is made up of an infectious microbe that has been altered weakened) in the laboratory so that it will cause an immune response but will not cause illness is called an):

Accepted Answer

A)   Live vaccine
B)   Live attenuated vaccine
C)   Inactivated vaccine
D)   Component vaccine

Question 7

An infectious disease outbreak occurs when there is a higher than expected number of cases of a particular disease.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Dracunculiasis Guinea worm disease) is a vaccine-preventable disease that requires a single dose for lifelong immunity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Which of the following factors makes a disease a good candidate for eradication?

Accepted Answer

A)   It mutates frequently
B)   There is limited funding available in developing nations to control the disease.
C)   There are multiple animal reservoirs.
D)   It can be prevented with a single dose of vaccine.

Question 10

When an infectious disease is spread by contact transmission, the source releases the microbe into the air, usually by breathing, coughing, or spitting, and the host is exposed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Which scientist proposed that if a microbe was responsible for a specific disease then it should be possible to isolate that microbe from an individual with the illness, grow the microbe in a laboratory, infect another individual, and re-isolate the same microbe from the newly infected individual?

Accepted Answer

A)   John Snow
B)   Robert Koch
C)   Louis Pasteur
D)   Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

Question 12

The process of identifying people who came into contact with an infected person is known in infectious disease epidemiology as the chain of infection.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Variolation, an early practice of preventing the spread of disease, was developed using an influenza-like virus from pigs and infecting humans to prevent more serious disease.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The emergence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV) has led to an increase in the number of cases of which other infectious disease, previously in decline for over 30 years?

Accepted Answer

A)   Smallpox
B)   Poliovirus
C)   Dracunculiasis
D)   Tuberculosis

Question 15

In infectious disease epidemiology, what measure is a useful indicator of the severity of an outbreak, calculated as the number of cases out of the number of susceptible people?

Accepted Answer

A)   Relative risk
B)   Odds ratio
C)   Attack rate
D)   Incubation period

Question 16

The final step of an outbreak investigation should be to report the findings to others so that future outbreaks might be prevented.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of the following types of epidemiology focuses on the distribution, control, and spread of infectious diseases?

Accepted Answer

A)   Pharmacoepidemiology
B)   Environmental epidemiology
C)   Social epidemiology
D)   Infectious disease epidemiology

Question 18

Poliovirus is spread through the fecal-oral route and causes inapparent infection in the vast majority of people who contract it.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Which of the following terms is used to describe the phenomenon that not all members of a community must be vaccinated in order to protect the community from an infectious disease outbreak?

Accepted Answer

A)   Eradication
B)   Variolation
C)   Herd immunity
D)   Inapparent infection

Question 20

An animal or insect that carries an infectious disease is called an):

Accepted Answer

A)   Vector
B)   Host
C)   Microbe
D)   Fomite

Exam 8: Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Which of the following is the only infectious disease to be successfully eradicated globally?

The descriptive epidemiology practice of identifying person, place, and time factors is also used in infectious disease epidemiology to describe an outbreak.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS) was a completely unique type of coronavirus that had not been seen before it caused a pandemic in 2002.

If you create an epidemic curve for an outbreak and see that there are multiple peaks in the number of infections over time, indicating the disease is spreading from person to person, what type of outbreak has occurred?

In infectious disease epidemiology, a case is a person who has been exposed to an infectious agent.

A vaccine that is made up of an infectious microbe that has been altered weakened) in the laboratory so that it will cause an immune response but will not cause illness is called an) :

An infectious disease outbreak occurs when there is a higher than expected number of cases of a particular disease.

Dracunculiasis Guinea worm disease) is a vaccine-preventable disease that requires a single dose for lifelong immunity.

Which of the following factors makes a disease a good candidate for eradication?

When an infectious disease is spread by contact transmission, the source releases the microbe into the air, usually by breathing, coughing, or spitting, and the host is exposed.

Which scientist proposed that if a microbe was responsible for a specific disease then it should be possible to isolate that microbe from an individual with the illness, grow the microbe in a laboratory, infect another individual, and re-isolate the same microbe from the newly infected individual?

The process of identifying people who came into contact with an infected person is known in infectious disease epidemiology as the chain of infection.

Variolation, an early practice of preventing the spread of disease, was developed using an influenza-like virus from pigs and infecting humans to prevent more serious disease.

The emergence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV) has led to an increase in the number of cases of which other infectious disease, previously in decline for over 30 years?

In infectious disease epidemiology, what measure is a useful indicator of the severity of an outbreak, calculated as the number of cases out of the number of susceptible people?

The final step of an outbreak investigation should be to report the findings to others so that future outbreaks might be prevented.

Which of the following types of epidemiology focuses on the distribution, control, and spread of infectious diseases?

Poliovirus is spread through the fecal-oral route and causes inapparent infection in the vast majority of people who contract it.

Which of the following terms is used to describe the phenomenon that not all members of a community must be vaccinated in order to protect the community from an infectious disease outbreak?

An animal or insect that carries an infectious disease is called an) :