11 :: A 42 year old woman who was complaining of shaking chills and fever went to the Salt Lake City Homeless clinic. She had enlarged lymph nodes in the right axilla. Upstream from the enlarged nodes was an ulcer on the top of the patients right hand. When carefully questioned, the patient said she remembered being bitten there by an insect resembling a horsefly, but with yellow stripes on its abdomen; Its what we used to call a deerfly, she added laconically. The patient denied any contact with rats or fleas. The patients disease was most likely to be:?
* A. Brucellosis* B. Ulcero-glandular tularemia
* C. Pneumonic plague
* D. Relapsing fever
Correct Answer: B
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12 :: Which of the following diseases are not transmitted by ticks?
* A. Ulceroglandular tularemia* B. Bubonic plague
* C. Relapsing fever
* D. Lyme disease
Correct Answer: B
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13 :: A 20 year old patient comes to the homeless clinic with a skin abscess on the right arm. A swab from the intact skin overlying this abscess grows coagulase negative staphylococci. An aspirate obtained sterilely with a needle and syringe grows Staphylococcus aureus. About these 2 organisms in this patient you can say?
* A. Both are normal flora and contaminated the specimens sent to the lab* B. The staph aureus is a pathogen and the coagulase negative staph is not
* C. The coagulase negative staphylococcus is a pathogen
* D. The coagulase negative staphylococcus is an opportunistic pathogen
Correct Answer: B
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14 :: A person who has a normal healthy immune system acquires a new strain of E. coli that now lives in his gastrointestinal tract. This individual is not ill. A second person with an acute leukemia and no white blood cells acquires the same organism, develops diarrhea followed by hypotension, bacteremia, sepsis, and death. This organism is?
* A. Normal flora for both individuals* B. A pathogen for both individuals
* C. An opportunistic pathogen for both individuals
* D. One with a low degree of virulence
Correct Answer: D
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15 :: A 25 year old woman has a 4 year old son who is now recovering from Group A strep pharyngitis. Out of curiosity, the pediatrician does a throat culture on the mother which is positive for Group A strep even though she doesnt have a sore throat. The pediatrician also does an ASO titer and anti DNAse B assay on her both of which are negative. At this point we would say that she?
* A. Has asymptomatic infection* B. Has opportunistic infection
* C. Is a carrier
* D. Is immunosuppressed
Correct Answer: C
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