Supplemental Quiz for Chapter 29

Chapter 29
Supplemental Quiz Questions

1. In breaking the chain of infection between people, the first effort should be?

A. Prevention of growth and multiplication by the pathogen within the host

B. Prevention of attachment of the pathogen to host cells

C. Prevention of invasion into cells and tissues by the pathogen within the host

D. Prevention of entry by the pathogen into the host

E. Prevention of damage to cells by the pathogen within the host

2. Several nonspecific proteins and steroids have been strongly associated with resistance to microbial infection. Their expression in a host suggests?

A. They are induced during infection

B. They are coded for by pathogenicity islands

C. They co-evolved with microbial virulence factors to prevent parasitism

D. They developed from the inflammatory system

E. They expel microbial invaders

3. Inflammation results in all of the following except?

A. Microbial inhibition, inactivation or death

B. Recruitment of white blood cells to the site of invasion

C. Loss of host integrity

D. Up-regulation of nonspecific immune defenses

E. Up-regulation of specific host defenses

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