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WCU Micro lecture final Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
Normal microbes in the colon? - ✔✔Bacteroides, escherichia, candida,
lactobacillus
Other enterobacteria- Candida predominate in the lower intestine & colon


What microbes cause cavities? - ✔✔Streptococcus mutans: frequent cause
Lactobacillus


What causes periodontal disease (gingivitis)? - ✔✔Gingivitis is an inflammation of
the gums (loss of bone, tooth loss)
Porphyromonas gingivalis- Protease breaks down gingival tissue


What causes peptic ulcers? - ✔✔Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori)


What can you get from contaminated ground beef? - ✔✔E.coli 0157:H7


What causes travelers diarrhea (Cholera)? - ✔✔O, H, K strain antigens
Caused by Escherichia coli (E.Coli)


What is the difference between shigella and salmonella lifecycles? - ✔✔Shigella
multiplies inside the cells of the colon & Salmonella travels to the gallbladder to
attack


What is the differnce between shigella and salmonella signs and symptoms?* -
✔✔Shigella: Fever, cramps, diarrhea, bloody stool

, Salmonella: Fever, headache, muscle pains, malaise, peritonitis, mainly attacks
the small intestine


What is the difference between shigella and salmonella, patho/epidemiology?* -
✔✔Shigella: colonies in the small to large intestine
-fecally contaminated hands, consumption of fecally contaminated foods.
Salmonella: contaminated meat or eggs & inadequate pasteurization. Tolerates
stomach acid, adhesions, malaise, toxins.
-blood infection (septicemia) can lead to systemic problems


Most common bacteria diarrhea reported in the U.S.? - ✔✔Campylobacter
Diarrhea


Symptoms of mumps (boy w/swollen neck) - ✔✔Parotitis (swelling of the paroid
salivary glands), face pain, fever, headache, & sore throat.


What are the mumps? - ✔✔ssRNA virus of genus Rubulavirus. Benign infecion wih
mumps virus of the parotid salivary glands of children & cause parotitis. Human
are the only natural host.


Match Hepatitis virus w/their common names? - ✔✔Hepatovirus Hepatitis A virus
(HAV)- Infectious hepatitis
Orthohepadnavirus Hepatitis B virus (HBV)- Serum hepatitis
Hepacivirus Hepatitis C virus (HCV)- Non-A,non-B; Chronic hepatits.
Deltavirus Hepatitis D (delta) virus (HDV)- Depatitis delta
Hepevirus Hepatiis E virus (HEV)- Enteric hepatitis

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