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SCI250 Week 7 Chapter 24 Nervous System Quiz

Section: Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following is associated with serious infection of the meninges?

· A. Clogging of blood vessels

· B. Increased pressure within the skull

· C. Decreased cerebrospinal fluid flow

· D. Impaired central nervous system function

· E. All of the above

2. Which of the following is NOT true of the nervous system?

· A. Consists of central and peripheral systems

· B. Central nervous system is composed of brain and spinal cord

· C. Ganglia are part of brain

· D. Meminges is membrane that covers brain and spinal cord

· E. Normally free of microbes

3. Which of the following is a common cause of meningitis in non-immunized young children?

· A. Streptococcus pneumoniae

· B. Escherichia coli

· C. Staphylococcus

· D. Haemophilus influenzae

· E. None of the above

4. A complication of infection with this organism (Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome) can occur if the organism becomes widely distributed in the body, leading to endotoxin shock and death. What is this organism?

· A. Haemophilus influenzae

· B. Neisseria meningitidis

· C. Haemophilus influenza

· D. Streptococcus pneumoniae

· E. Listeria monocytogenes

5. Because patients who survive serious disease with this microorganism may have permanent central nervous system disorders, it is the leading cause of mental retardation in the world.

· A. Haemophilus influenzae

· B. Neisseria meningitidis

· C. Streptococcus pneumoniae

· D. Listeria monocytogenes

6. What is the microorganism that causes most cases of meningitis among adults?

· A. Haemophilus influenzae
· B. Neisseria meningitidis

· C. Haemophilus influenzae

· D. Listeria monocytogenes

· E. Streptococcus pneumoniae

7. Which of the following bacteria that may cause meningitis is Gram positive and therefore does not cause endotoxin shock in infected individuals?

· A. Escherichia coli

· B. Neisseria meningitidis

· C. Listeria monocytogenes

· D. Haemophilus influenzae
· E. None of the above

8. The disease associated with Chronic meningitis is caused by ________

· A. Streptococcus pneumoniae.

· B. Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

· C. Staphylococcus.

· D. Treponema pallidum.

· E. B and D

9. Meningitis caused by Listeria monocytogenes is usually transmited by ________

· A. food.

· B. water.

· C. aerosols.

· C. sexual contact.

· D. physical contact.

10. Which of the following can most easily pass through the blood–brain barrier?

· A. Penicillin

· B. Chloramphenicol

· C. Antibodies

· D. Complement

· E. All of the above

11. What causes Hansen’s disease (leprosy)?

· A. Mycobacterium tuberculosis

· B. Mycobacterium leprae

· C. Listeria monocytogenes

· D. Clostridium botulinum

· E. Prions

12. An immunofluorescent antibody test (IFAT) has replaced the older test for the presence of inclusions in neurons (Negri bodies) for the detection of infections caused by ________

· A. Neisseria meningitides.

· B. Enteroviruses.

· C. Mumps virus.

· D. Rabies virus.

· E. Haemophilus influenzae

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13. What viruses most likely cause encephalitis?

· A. Togaviruses

· B. Enteroviruses

· C. Mumps virus

· D. Rabies virus

· E. Hepatitis viruses

14. What is the only bacterium known to damage peripheral nerves?

· A. Naegleria fowleri

· B. Mycobacterium leprae
· C. Streptococcus pneumoniae

· D. Neisseria meningitidis

· E. Haemophilus influenzae

15. Muscle spasms that can lead to an arched back and spasms of the jaw muscles (lockjaw) can be caused by infections with ________

· A. Clostridium tetani.

· B. Clostridium botulinum.

· C. Mycobacterium leprae.

· D. Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

· E. Poliovirus.

16. A vaccine that was developed in 1933 has proven effective in reducing the incidence of disease caused by ________

· A. Clostridium botulinum.

· B. Mycobacterium leprae.

· C. Clostridium tetani.

· D. Streptococcus pneumoniae.

· E. Listeria monocytogenes.

17. What is the most common form of disease caused by Clostridium botulinum?

· A. Infant

· B. Wound

· C. Lung, followed by exposure to aerosols

· D. Foodborne

· E. None of the above

18. A toxin that causes paralysis by preventing the release of acetylcholine at the junctions between neurons and muscles is produced by strains of ________

· A. Clostridium botulinum.
· B. Mycobacterium leprae.

· C. Streptococcus thermicos.

· D. Clostridium tetani.

· E. Listeria monocytogenes.

19. Preventing African sleeping sickness is nearly impossible because ________

· A. the trypanosomes change their surface glycoproteins evading the host immune response.

· B. the tsetse fly has a wide range and eradication is difficult.

· C. vaccines must target many antigens.

· D. All of the above

· E. A and B

20. Poliovirus infections may cause no symptoms and go undetected in ________

· A. small children.

· B. teenagers.

· C. young adults.

· D. elderly.

· E. All of the above

21. Which form of poliovirus vaccine is better at eliminating viruses in the gastrointestinal tract?

· A. Live attenuated vaccine

· B. Formalin-killed vaccine

22. A major difference between infections with prions and other agents is that infections with prions:

· A. Do not lead to an inflammatory response

· B. Are not transmissible

· C. Do not cause an increase in the size of astrocytes

· D. Are not fatal

· E. All of the above

Section: Matching

23. Tissue necrosis, brain edema, headache, fever, occasionally seizures

· A. Bacterial meningitis

· B. Listeriosis

· C. Rabies

· D. Encephalitis

· E. Hansen’s disease

· F. Tetanus

· G. Botulism

· H. Poliomyelitis

· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies

· J. Chagas’ disease

24. A kind of meningitis seen in fetuses and immunodeficient patients

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis

· C. Rabies

· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis

· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies

· J. Chagas’ disease

25. Invades nerves and brain; headache, fever, nausea, partial paralysis, coma, and death ensue unless patient has immunity

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies

· D. Encephalitis

· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism

· H. Pliomyelitis

· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
· J. Chagas’ disease

26. Shrinkage and lysis of neurons of the central nervous system; headache, fever, and sometimes brain necrosis and convulsions

· A. Bacterial meningitis

· B. Listeriosis

· C. Rabies

· D. Encephalitis

· E. Hansen’s disease

· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis
· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
· J. Chagas’ disease

27. Range of symptoms from loss of skin pigment and sensation to lepromas and erosion of skin and bone

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies
· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis
· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
· J. Chagas’ disease

28. Toxin-mediated disease; muscle stiffness, spasms, paralysis of respiratory muscles, heart damage, and usually death

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies
· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism

· H. Pioliomyelitis

· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies

· J. Chagas’ disease

29. Preformed toxin from food prevents release of acetylcholine; paralysis and death result unless treated promptly; in infants and wounds, endospores germinate and produce toxin

· A. Bacterial meningitis

· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies
· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis
· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
· J. Chagas’ disease

30. Fever, back pain, muscle spasms, partial or complete flaccid paralysis from destruction of motor neurons

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies
· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis
· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
· J. Chagas’ disease

31. Death of brain cells leave holes, creating spongiform brain tissue; amyloid plaques form; long delay before symptoms appear; then spasms rapidly worsening to collapse; no cure

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies
· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis
· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies

· J. Chagas’ disease

32. Subcutaneous inflammation, damage to lymphatic tissues, muscle, and nerve ganglia; muscle pain and paralysis of intestinal, heart, and skeletal muscle

· A. Bacterial meningitis
· B. Listeriosis
· C. Rabies
· D. Encephalitis
· E. Hansen’s disease
· F. Tetanus
· G. Botulism
· H. Poliomyelitis
· I. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
· J. Chagas’ disease