Jitter Bugs
What is a bacteria categorized as if it can only grow in an environment with no oxygen?
Anaerobic
What are the cell walls of fungi made of?
Chitin
Which disease discussed in this class causes a distinctive cough that make breathing difficult during coughing spells and is particularly dangerous to infants under age 1?
What machine was invented to act as an artificial diaphragm muscle to inflate and deflate lungs for those who had breathing muscle paralysis from polio before vaccines were developed?
The Iron Lung
Name one of the three disease that Robert Koch identified as being caused by a specific bacteria by using the four postulates her developed.
Anthrax, Tuberculosis, and Cholera
What animals are injected with bacterial toxins for certain diseases so that they produce antibodies that can then be extracted from their serum and use as "antitoxin"?
Horses
What scientist invented the attenuated (weakened) live oral polio vaccine that is currently used only outside of the U.S.?
Albert Sabin
What bacterial disease causes excessive vomiting and diarrhea that can lead to severe dehydration and death within hours in some cases if not treated?
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
What disease is caused by Claviceps purpurea (in the Ascomycota family) and can cause hallucinations, convulsions, etc. and is a mold that grows on rye?
Ergot's Disease
What disease is caused by a bacteria that colonizes the pharynx (throat) and has a toxin that kills many cells there, which forms a thick pseudo-membrane that can impede breathing.
Diphtheria
Which virus discussed in this class is known to cross the placenta and cause miscarriages and/or birth defects in a growing fetus?
German measles (Rubella)
What is the formal scientific term for a chain of rod shaped bacteria?
Streptobacillus
What syndrome do patients also have if they contract the opportunistic fungal infection Cryptococcus neoformans?
AIDS
For adults, how many years apart are boosters typically given for DTaP?
10 years
For Louis Pasteur to make the rabies vaccine, rabbits were injected with rabies virus. What part of the animal was extracted and dried to inject the next rabbit in a series to weaken the virus over time?
Spinal cord
If a bacteria appears pink in a gram stain, what compound does it have less of in its cell wall compared to a bacteria that stains purple?
Peptidoglycan
What fungus leads to a thick white sheet of cells to form causing thrush (in the mouth), diaper rash, jock itch, etc.?
Candida albicans
What disease has a toxin that can cause a symptom called opisthotonus?
Tetanus
What type of vaccine is the polio vaccine created by Jonas Salk that is currently used in the U.S. childhood vaccine series?
Inactivated (killed) vaccine