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General Immunology
100
An effective immune response to Leishmaniases involved the development of this type of cell response:
What is 'TH1 response'
100
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a vaccine for this bacterial infection:
What is 'Tuberculosis'
100
The primary host defense against viral (and bacterial) attachment to epithelial surfaces is:
What is 'IgA'
100
Fungal infections are classified based on route of acquisition of infection. Where does endogenous fungal infection come from?
What is 'latent reactivation, commensal organism'
100
This type of immunoglobulin is mainly found at the mucosal surfaces'
What is 'IgA'
200
African sleeping disease is transmitted to humans and cattle by the bite of this fly:
What is 'tsetse fly'
200
Within some strains of Diphtheria, phage B can exist in this state _______ in which the B-prophage DNA persists within the bacterial cell.
What is 'lysogeny'
200
Non-specific host defense against viral infection is mediated by:
What is 'IFN-a and IFN-b'
200
Host response to fungal infections include: a) innate response b) adaptive response c) both
What is 'c) both'
200
The following are professional antigen presenting cells (name them all!):
What is 'macrophages, DC, B cells'
300
The most effective vaccine for malaria is:
What is ' NONE, there are no effective vaccines for malaria'
300
Infection with tuberculosis is controlled primarily by which cells?
What is 'CD4+ T cells'
300
Influenza strains A, B , C can be distinguished by:
What is 'differences in nucleoprotein and matrix proteins'
300
An individual infected with a fungus will display the following symptoms:
What is 'none'
300
These 2 genes are important for gene rearrangements of BCR and TCR:
What is 'RAG-1 and RAG-2'
400
This parasitic work causes this chronic, sometimes debilitating disease that was previously known as bilharzia:
What is 'shcistosomiasis'
400
The mycobacteria causing tuberculosis are walled off in granulomatous lesions called:
What is 'tubercles'
400
Influenza viral particles/virions have this shape:
What is 'spherical or ovoid'
400
Fungal infections are classified by several factors including virulence. What are the types of virulence for fungi?
What is 'primary or opportunistic'
400
RSS is important in gene rearrangements. What does it stand for?
What is 'recombination signal sequences'
500
Symptoms of infection with this parasite include recurrent chills, fever and sweating:
What is 'malaria
500
Variation in pilin, which is expressed by many gram negative bacteria, is generated by this process:
What is 'gene conversion'
500
Variation in influenza surface proteins is generated by these 2 mechanisms:
What is 'antigenic shift and antigenic drift'
500
Fungal infections activate the following complement pathway: a) classical b) alternative c) lectin d) all of the above e) B & C
What is 'e) B & C
500
These cells are important because they can eliminate intracellular pathogens specifically, but it takes a week to produce them in the host.
What is 'CTL'