Single Matching. Match the disease with its common name.____________coccidioidomycosis           a. tinea____________histoplasmosis                b. San Joaquin Valley fever____________blastomycosis                  c. South American blastomycosis____________sporotrichosis                    d. Chicago disease____________paracoccidioidomycosis              e. rose-gardener’s disease____________dermatophytosis               f. yeast infection____________candidiasis                     g. Ohio Valley fever

This respiratory mycoses is acquired by inhaling microconidial spores in the air and is not transmitted from human to human. The microbe that causes the disease grows as a filamentous mold in the environment but occurs as a budding yeast during human infections. Select one: a. Pneumocystis jirovecii b. Coccidioides immitis c. Histoplasma capsulatum d. Blastomyces dermatitidis

Match the following terms with their respective definition: _____1. Carrier                             a. Insects that transmit infection _____2. Fomite                             b. Presence of bacteria in the blood _____3. Vector                             c. Person harboring the organism without  signs and symptoms of the disease _____4. Vehicle                            d. Hospital-acquired infection _____5. Septicemia                      e. Infection confined to a limited area _____6. Fulminant infection         f. Inanimate object which can carry microorganisms _____7. Nosocomial infection      g. Multiplying bacteria in the bloodstream _____8. Local infection                h. Biological substances that can carry organism _____9. Bacteremia                     i. Presence of toxin in the bloodstream _____10. Toxemia                        j. Infection that always leads to death.

Type of infection for the following and small info about them: A. Naegleria fowleri B. Acanthamoeba species C. Entamoeba histolytica D. Giardiasis E. Balantidiasis F. Sleeping sickness. G. Toxoplasmosis.

Determine the host and location of the following: A. Entamoeba hartmanni B. Entamoeba coli C. Entamoeba polecki D. Entamaeba gingivalis E. Endolimax nana F. Entamoeba dispar G. Iodamoeba butschlii H. Acanthamoeba keratitis I. Toxoplasma gondii J. Naegleria fowleri Answer A-J

Several persons working in an exercise gym acquired an acute diseasecharacterized by fever, cough, pneumonia, and headache. Treatmentwith erythromycin cleared it up. The source was never found, but anenvironmental focus was suspected.a. What do you think might have caused the disease?b. People in a different gym got skin lesions after sitting in aredwood hot tub. Which pathogen could have caused that?

Human brucellosis is also known asa. Bang disease b. undulant fever c. rabbit fever d. Malta fever

What virulence factor is associated with the development of skinhemorrhages in meningitis?a. skin invasion by N. meningitidis b. blood clots c. erysipelas d. endotoxins in the blood

The form of leprosy associated with severe disfi gurement of the face is a. tuberculoid c. borderline b. lepromatous d. papular