• Question 1
Mannitol salt agar is used to select strains of staphylococci from streptococci and enterococci within the sample.
Selected Answer: True
Answers:
True
Fals e
• Question 2
function in humoral immun
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• Question 1
Mannitol salt agar is used to select strains of staphylococci from streptococci and enterococci within the sample.
Selected Answer: True
Answers:
True
Fals e
• Question 2
function in humoral immunity, while function in cell-mediated immunity.
Selected
Answer: B cells, T cells
Answers:
B cells, T cells T cells, B cells
B cells, neutrophils
Basophils, T cells Monocytes, basophils
• Question 3
The specificity of an antibody is due to
Selected
Answer: The variable portions of the H and L chains.
Answers: The constant portions of the H and L chains.
The L chains.
The variable portions of the H and L chains. Its valence.
The H chains.
• Question 4
A vaccine that contains a protein conjugated to a capsule polysaccharide is called
Selected
Answer: Conjugate
Answers:
Acellular Attenuated
Conjugate
Subunit
• Question 5
Congenital infections in newborns can happen at any time during the pregnancy up through the time of delivery.
Selected Answer: True
Answers:
True
Fals e
• Question 6
All of the following are methods that can be used to isolate bacteria from a mixed culture EXCEPT
Selected
Answer: Gram staining
Answers:
Streak plating
Loop dilution pour plating Gram staining
Serial dilution followed by spread plating
• Question 7
Which type of white blood cells are particularly attracted to sites of parasitic worm infections?
Selected Answer:
Answers:
Eosinophils
Eosinophils Monocytes Basophils
Neutrophils
Lymphocytes
• Question 8
Pollen is which type of allergen?
Selected Answer: Inhalant
Answers: Contactant
Ingestant Injectant
Inhalant
• Question 9
are molecules that stimulate a response by T and B cells.
Selected Answer: Antigens
Answers: Antibodies
Antigens Interferons
Platelets
• Question 10
What do plasma cells do?
Selected
Answer: Secrete antibody
Answers:
Function in allergic reactions Directly destroy target cells
Suppress immune reactions
Activate B cells and other T cells using cytokines
Secrete antibody
• Question 11
Perinatal infections include all the following EXCEPT
Selected
Answer: West Nile Virus
Answers: Chlamydial pneumonia
Cytomegalovirus Zika virus
HIV
West Nile Virus
• Question 12
The test involves using rabbit plasma as a reagent and its results are determined by observation of thickening of the medium.
Selected
Answer: Coagulase
Answers:
Catalase
Oxidase
Coagulase Peroxidase
• Question 13
Most antiviral drugs function by all but which of the following
Selected
Answer: barring penetration of the virus into the host cell
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barring penetration of the virus into the host cell
blocking the transcription and translation of viral molecules
Preventing the maturation of viral particles disrupting viral metabolism
• Question 14
Antigen-presenting cells
Selected
Answer:
Answers:
All the choices are correct.
Engulf and modify antigen to be more immunogenic.
Hold and present processed antigen on their cell membrane surface.
Include macrophages.
All the choices are correct.
Include dendritic cells.
• Question 15
The high salt content in a mannitol salt agar plate helps to separate
from and in a mixed sample.
Selected Answer:
Answers:
Streptococcus pyogenes; Streptococcus agalactiae;
Staphylococcus aureus
staphylococci; streptococci; enterococci streptococci; staphylococci; enterococci
enterococci; streptococci; staphylococci
Streptococcus pyogenes; Streptococcus agalactiae; Staphylococcus aureus
• Question 16
Which describes the innate immune response?
Selected
Answer: involves granulocytes, agranulocytes, chemical and physical
defenses
Answers:
involves granulocytes, agranulocytes, chemical and physical defenses
highly specific defense with memory
involves antibodies produced by B lymphocyte cells
active against specific antigens
• Question 17
The least numerous of all white blood cells that release histamine during inflammation and allergic reactions are
Selected Answer: Basophils.
Answers:
Monocytes.
Basophils.
Lymphocytes.
Eosinophils.
Neutrophils.
• Question 18
Infections that are more common during pregnancy include all the following EXCEPT
Selected Answer: Syphilis
Answers:
Malaria
Urinary tract infections Candidiasis
Poliomyelitis
Syphilis
• Question 19
A vaccine that contains parts of viruses is called
Selected
Answer: Attenuated
Answers:
Acellular Recombinant
Subunit
Attenuated
• Question 20
A vaccine that contains microbes that have been treated with chemicals, radiation, heat, or some other method that does not destroy the organism but doesn’t let it replicate is called
Selected
Answer: Inactivated
Answers:
Inactivated Attenuated
Toxoid
Conjugate
• Question 21
The coagulase test is used to differentiate from coagulase-negative bacteria.
Selected
Answer: Staphylococcus aureus
Answers:
Streptococcus pyogenes
Staphylococcus aureus
Enterobacter faecalis Staphylococcus epidermis
• Question 22
A vaccine that contains living, non-virulent strains of a microbe is called
Selected
Answer: Attenuated
Answers:
Acellular
Attenuated Inactivated Toxoid
• Question 23
Which test utilizes hydrogen peroxide and the observation of gas bubble formation when attempting to identify an unknown bacterium?
Selected
Answer: Catalase test
Answers: Bile esculin hydrolysis
Coagulase test Oxidase test
Catalase test
• Question 24
Once a microbe has entered a host, what process performed by certain white blood cells will attempt to destroy the microbes?
Selected
Answer:
Answers:
Phagocytosis
Exocytosis
Phagocytosis Encapsulation
Adhesion
Margination
• Question 25
A “halo” or partial clearing around a colony of bacteria on a blood agar plate is referred to as hemolysis.
Selected Answer: Beta
Answers:
Alpha
Beta Gamma
Delta
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