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100
Which of the following people first identified the microbe that causes Malaria?

a. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

b. Ronald Ross

c. Giovanni Batista

d. W.C. Gorgas

e. Carl Linnaeus

a. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
100
In the absense of treatment, AIDS takes an average of how many days to develop?

a. 6

b. 8

c. 10

d. 12

e. 14

c. 10
100
The CRR5-delta 32 mutation interferes with which stage of the HIV life cycle?

a. fusion

b. reverse transcription

c. integration

d. assembly

e. binding

e. binding
100
In the second stage of an Ebola outbreak, a case definition is developed. A case definition includes what?

a. person, place, time

b. species, place, time

c. person, species, place

d. reservoir, place, species

e. reservoir, species, time

a. person, place, time
100
In high income countries,

a. men have a longer life expenctancy than women

b. the life expectancy is shorter as compared to the life epectancy in low-income countries

c. the most common cause of death is noncommunicable diseases

d. the most common cause of death is communicable diseases

e. mean life expectancy for men and women is sixy and sixty-three years, respeectively.

c. the most common cause of death is noncommunicable diseases
200
Which of the following individuals would be most likely to have a mutation in the CCR5 gene, thereby preventing them from being infected by the HIV virus?

a. french descent

b. Japanese descent

c. Nigerian descent

d. Native American descent

e. South African descent

a. french descent
200
An example of preventing malaria through treatment is...

a. targeted mass drug administration

b. larval control

c. indoor residual spraying

d. insecticide-treated mosquito nets

e. source reduction

a. targeted mass drug administration
200
Malaria is caused by the protozoan parasite known as 

a. entamoeba

b. giardia

c. balantidium

d. leishmania

e. plasmodium

e. plasmodium
200
a treatment for minimizing the harmful effects of Ebola may MOST likely function by

a. mimicking interferon function

b. inhibiting T lymphocyte responses

c. inhibiting B lymphocyte responses

d. inhibiting macrophage responses

e. stimulating inflammatory responses

a. mimicking interferon function
200
which class of drugs directly block the ability of the HIV virus to integrate into the host's genome

a. PIs

b. NRTIs

c. NNRTIs

d. INSTIs

e. INNSRTs

d. INSTIs
300
Which of the following individuals was the first to propose that disease was not due to supernatural causes?

a. Louis Pasteur

b. Anton van Leeuwenhoek

c. Robert Koch

d. Sir Alexander Fleming

e. Hippocrates

e. Hippocrates
300
Ebola is a type of what?

a. bacteria

b. prion

c. virus

d. fungus

e. eukaryote cell

c. virus
300
early outbreaks of Ebola were treated using which of the following treatments?

a. vaccines

b. antibiotics

c. antiparasitics

d. antifungals

e. quarantine

e. quarantine
300
The largest Ebola outbreak in History began in 

a. 1976

b. 1955

c. 2000

d. 2004

e. 2013

e. 2013
300
A drug interfering with the motile stage of Plasmodium effect

a. schizonts

b. merozoites

c. gametocytes

d. sporozoites

e. zygotes

d. sporozoites
400
Dr. Grethe Rask was killed by an opportunistic infection that arose due to what?

a. AIDS

b. pneumocystis pneumonia

c. Kaposi's sarcoma

d. malaria

e. Ebola

a. AIDS
400
A person would be MOST likely to contract malaria in a climate that is

a. dry and hot

b. dry and cold

c. warm and dry

d. cold and wet

e. warm and wet

e. warm and wet
400
for malaria, gametes are present in what?

a. the liver stage

b. the mosquito gut stage

c. the blood stage

d. both the liver stage and blood stage

e. both the mosquito stage and blood stage

b. the mosquito gut stage
400
The earliest known sample of HIV was collected in which year?

a. 1920

b. 1945

c. 1959

d. 1977

e. 1984

c. 1959
400
HIV-2

a. progresses faster than HIV-1

b. progresses slower than HIV-1

c. can be further characterized into different strains

d. is more predominant than HIV-1

e. is a type of adenovirus

a. progresses faster than HIV-1
500
The Ebola virus is capable of "hiding out" in places such as the

a. central nervous system

b. heart

c. liver

d. kidneys

e. bones

a. central nervous system
500
an infection transmitted via airborne transmission would MOST likely infect cells of the

a. urinary tract

b. respiratory tract

c. musculoskeletal system

d. digestive tract

e. integumentary system

b. respiratory tract
500
Interferons are a type of what, that prevent viral replication, among other functions?

a. white blood cell

b. macrophage

c. T-lymphocyte

d. B-lymphocyte

e. cytokine

e. cytokine
500
A future treament for preventing the proliferation of Ebola in the host could MOST likely be achieved by doing what?

a. stimulating macropinocytosis

b. inhibiting the interaction of the Ebola glycoprotein with host cell receptors

c. enhancing function of the L protein

d. stimulating cellular translational machinery

e. genetically modifying mosquito populations

b. inhibiting the interaction of the Ebola glycoprotein with host cell receptors
500
An effective treatment against ebola coult possibly be to

a. inhibit reverse transcriptase

b. inhibit the Ebola glycoprotein

c. inhibit integrase

d. stimulate the Ebola L protein

e. inhibit Ebola mitochondria

a. inhibit reverse transcriptase