PATH 3610 MIDTERM 3 EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following statements about protozoal disease is false?
a. Many protozoal diseases have a restricted geographical distribution
b. They are usually opportunistic infections
c. In a worldwide basis, they are one of the most significant causes of infectious disease
in man - Answer- b. They are usually opportunistic infections (protozoa = parasite,
fungal = opportunistic)
Which of the following statements about diseases caused by helminths is false?
a. There is often an associated neutrophilia
b. Disease may occur with man as either the definitive hose or an intermediate host
c. The life cycle of helminths may involve migration through many tissues - Answer- a.
There is often an associated neutrophilia (helminth = parasitic infection = eosinophilia)
Which of the following is not an adverse effect caused by viruses?
a. Initiation of cellular immunity, with subsequent tissue damage
b. Cell lysis
c. Release of viral toxins - Answer- c. Release of viral toxins
Which of the following statements about fungal disease is false?
a. There is often a strong geographical localization
b. The widespread use of antibiotics has decreased the incidence of fungal disease
c. Fungi can cause intracellular infection - Answer- b. The widespread use of antibiotics
has decreased the incidence of fungal disease
An example of a chronic viral infection, which causes cell necrosis and subsequent
fibrosis over a long period is:
a. Herpesvirus
b. Hepatitis C virus
c. Ebola virus - Answer- b. Hepatitis C virus
In the prion-related spongiform encephalopathies, disease is related to:
a. Accumulation of large amounts of abnormal prion protein in brain tissue
b. Inflammatory reactions characterized by lymphocytes
c. Axonal vacuolation - Answer- a. Accumulation of large amounts of abnormal prion
protein in brain tissue
The coagulase enzyme produced by Staphylococcus aureus is an example of a:
, a. Bacterial adhesion
b. Remotely acting toxin
c. Locally acting enzyme - Answer- c. Locally acting enzyme
Suppurative inflammation is characteristic of:
a. Protozoal infections
b. Fungal infections
c. Bacterial infections - Answer- c. Bacterial infections
Fungi cause tissue injury primarily by:
a. Inducing delayed type hypersensitivity responses
b. Releasing toxins which lead to tissue necrosis
c. Causing thrombosis and associated ischemic injury - Answer- a. Inducing delayed
type hypersensitivity responses
Parasitic diseases lead to tissue reactions characterized by:
a. Lymphocytes
b. Neutrophils
c. Eosinophils - Answer- c. Eosinophils
80. All of the following are potential complications of healing by second intention,
EXCEPT
a. increased risk of infection
b. loss of functional tissue/organ cell types
c. inadequate development of granulation tissue - Answer- c. inadequate development
of granulation tissue
81. The proportion of a population with a particular disease that die from that disease is
called
a. the mortality rate
b. the morbidity rate
c. the case fatality rate - Answer- c. the case fatality rate
82. The primary motivators for cell replication are the
a. growth factors
b. cyclins
c. hormones - Answer- b. cyclins
83. Second intention healing occurs when a wound is surgically debrided and sutured
closed
a. True
b. False - Answer- b. False
84. Which of the following represents the appropriate stepwise progression of
angiogenesis?
1- Recruitment of periendothelial cells
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following statements about protozoal disease is false?
a. Many protozoal diseases have a restricted geographical distribution
b. They are usually opportunistic infections
c. In a worldwide basis, they are one of the most significant causes of infectious disease
in man - Answer- b. They are usually opportunistic infections (protozoa = parasite,
fungal = opportunistic)
Which of the following statements about diseases caused by helminths is false?
a. There is often an associated neutrophilia
b. Disease may occur with man as either the definitive hose or an intermediate host
c. The life cycle of helminths may involve migration through many tissues - Answer- a.
There is often an associated neutrophilia (helminth = parasitic infection = eosinophilia)
Which of the following is not an adverse effect caused by viruses?
a. Initiation of cellular immunity, with subsequent tissue damage
b. Cell lysis
c. Release of viral toxins - Answer- c. Release of viral toxins
Which of the following statements about fungal disease is false?
a. There is often a strong geographical localization
b. The widespread use of antibiotics has decreased the incidence of fungal disease
c. Fungi can cause intracellular infection - Answer- b. The widespread use of antibiotics
has decreased the incidence of fungal disease
An example of a chronic viral infection, which causes cell necrosis and subsequent
fibrosis over a long period is:
a. Herpesvirus
b. Hepatitis C virus
c. Ebola virus - Answer- b. Hepatitis C virus
In the prion-related spongiform encephalopathies, disease is related to:
a. Accumulation of large amounts of abnormal prion protein in brain tissue
b. Inflammatory reactions characterized by lymphocytes
c. Axonal vacuolation - Answer- a. Accumulation of large amounts of abnormal prion
protein in brain tissue
The coagulase enzyme produced by Staphylococcus aureus is an example of a:
, a. Bacterial adhesion
b. Remotely acting toxin
c. Locally acting enzyme - Answer- c. Locally acting enzyme
Suppurative inflammation is characteristic of:
a. Protozoal infections
b. Fungal infections
c. Bacterial infections - Answer- c. Bacterial infections
Fungi cause tissue injury primarily by:
a. Inducing delayed type hypersensitivity responses
b. Releasing toxins which lead to tissue necrosis
c. Causing thrombosis and associated ischemic injury - Answer- a. Inducing delayed
type hypersensitivity responses
Parasitic diseases lead to tissue reactions characterized by:
a. Lymphocytes
b. Neutrophils
c. Eosinophils - Answer- c. Eosinophils
80. All of the following are potential complications of healing by second intention,
EXCEPT
a. increased risk of infection
b. loss of functional tissue/organ cell types
c. inadequate development of granulation tissue - Answer- c. inadequate development
of granulation tissue
81. The proportion of a population with a particular disease that die from that disease is
called
a. the mortality rate
b. the morbidity rate
c. the case fatality rate - Answer- c. the case fatality rate
82. The primary motivators for cell replication are the
a. growth factors
b. cyclins
c. hormones - Answer- b. cyclins
83. Second intention healing occurs when a wound is surgically debrided and sutured
closed
a. True
b. False - Answer- b. False
84. Which of the following represents the appropriate stepwise progression of
angiogenesis?
1- Recruitment of periendothelial cells
