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Microbiology for Embalmers AAMI| 175 questions| with complete solutions
Question 1: The causative agent of scarlet fever is
Staphylococcus aureus?
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 2: The Meningococcus enters the body by nose and
mouth
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 3: Which of the following organisms enters the body
by the genital system?
CORRECT ANSWER : Neisseria Gonorrhea/gonococcus
Question 4: Opthalmia neonatorum is caused by the
Gonococcus.
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 5: A nosocomial infection is one that originates in
CORRECT ANSWER : hospitals
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Question 6: Toxic shock syndrome is caused by?
CORRECT ANSWER : Staphylococcus aureus
Question 7: The infection, puerperal sepsis is caused by an
organism that enters the body by way of
CORRECT ANSWER : hands or instruments
Question 8: The beta hemolytic streptococcal organism causes
milder infections than the alpha hemolytic strep.
CORRECT ANSWER : False
Question 9: Which organism causes lesions called abscesses?
CORRECT ANSWER : Staphylococcus aureus
Question 10: Crede's method is associated with which
organism?
CORRECT ANSWER : Neisseria gonorrhea
Question 11: Staphylococcus aureus causes
CORRECT ANSWER : Boils, furuncles, carbuncles, pimples
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Question 12: There is a permanent naturally acquired active
immunity to Gonorrhea
CORRECT ANSWER : False
Question 13: What infections have a rash?
CORRECT ANSWER : Scarlet fever
Question 14: The Pneumococcus typically enters the body by
way of a wound
CORRECT ANSWER: False
Question 15: The Meningococcus is transmitted via droplet
infection through aerosols or nasopharyngeal discharge from an infected person or carrier.
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 16: The organisms do not have to enter the body to
cause a food intoxication as in a type of food poisoning.
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 17: Which of the following organisms have a capsule?
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CORRECT ANSWER : Pneumococcus
Question 18: Which infections are transmitted by droplet
infection?
CORRECT ANSWER : Neisseria meningitidis
Question 19: Neisseria meningitidis produces an endotoxin.
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 20: Bronchopneumonia is milder then lobar
pneumonia.
CORRECT ANSWER : True
Question 21: Which organism is well known for causing
nosocomial infections?
CORRECT ANSWER : Staphylococcus aureus
Question 22: An organism that must obtain its oxygen from
oxygen containing compounds is an aerobe.