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Infectious Disease Knowledge Quiz

Challenge your understanding of infectious diseases with our comprehensive quiz! This quiz consists of 35 questions designed to test your knowledge on various communicable diseases, their causative agents, prevention methods, and treatment.

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Communicable disease are readily transferred from one infected person to a susceptible and uninfected. They have numerous economic psychological, enabling and non-distinguishing effects to the emergence of newly discovered diseases and the re-emergence of old ones.

Viruses is the most common infection-causing microorganisms. Consist primarily of nucleic acid and therefore must enter a living cells in order to reproduce

The extent to which any microorganisms is capable of producing an infectious process depends on the number of antigens (antigenicity). The ability of the microorganisms to enter the body, the susceptibility of the host, and the ability of microorganisms to live in the host’s body.

Direct Transmission involves immediate and direct transfer of microorganisms from person to person through touching, biting, kissing, or sexual intercourse. Droplet spread is also a form of direct transmission but can occur only of the source and the host are within 3 feet of each other.

A vehicle is any substance that serves as an intermediate means to transport and introducing infectious agent into susceptible host through a suitable portal of entry. Fomites (inanimate objects or materials) such as handkerchiefs, toys, soiled clothes, cooking or eating utensils, and surgical instruments or dressing can act as vehicle

(A. lumbricoides) is a parasitic helminth that live in a host (reservoir) intestines. After copulation, the female A. Lumbricoides lays eggs which are evacuated together with the feces (exit portal). These eggs require an incubation period in the body before become infective

Gloves reduce the chance that the health worker’s hands will transmit microorganisms from one client or to another client. In all situations, gloves are not changed between client’s contacts.

Chemoprophylaxis is the administration of drugs to treat the infection. One example of chemoprophylaxis is penicillin for chlamydia

Influenza is a highly communicable disease characterized by abrupt onset with fever which last 1 to 3 days. The causative agent can be Influenza virus A,B,C

Pediatrics are more prone to pneumonia with causative agent of Klebsiella pneumonia. Adults on the other hand are more prone on Streptococcus pneumonia.

Cholera (El Tor) is an acute serious illness characterized by sudden onset of acute and profuse colorless diarrhea, vomiting, severe dehydration, muscular cramps, cyanosis and in severe cases collapse. Pneumonia is considered as the World’s deadliest disease and remains as a major public health problem in the Philippines

BCG vaccination of newborn, infants, grade 1/ school entrants will reduce the rate of TB. Educating the public in mode of spread and method of control and the importance of early diagnosis is one of the preventive measures for TB

The causative agent of leprosy is Mycobacterium leprae. Mode of transmission is airborne or droplet or skin to skin contact

Paragonimiasis is frequently encountered in communities where eating of fresh or inadequately cooked crabs in practice. It is the thrird most prevalent infection worldwide second only to the diarrheal disease and tuberculosis

The three major causes of intestinal parasitic in the Philippines are hookworm, ascaris, trichuris trichuria. They are classified as soil helminthes because their major development takes place in the soil.

SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS (STH) can cause Anemia, Malnutrition, Stunted growth in height and body size. Piperazine citrate is an example drug for treating STH

Measles is an acute highly communicable infection characterized by fever, rashes and symptoms referable to upper respiratory tract; the eruption is preceded by about 2 days of coryza, during which stage grayish pecks (“koplik spots”) may be found on the inner surface of the cheeks. Its source of transmission is the secretion of nose and the throat of infective person

One of the symptoms of mumps is painful swelling in front of ear, angle of jaws and down the neck. DPT vaccine can reduce the rate of mumps

Schistosomes are the only flukes without intermediate hosts. Infection occurs when the skin comes in contact with contaminated fresh water in which certain can be a habitat of snails

Sundathelpusa philippina is the first intermediate host of Schistosoma spp. One of mode of transmission is ingestion of raw insufficiently cooked infected crabs

Shingles is the second phase of chickenpox among the children. It is deadlier and more severe than chickenpox.

Cholera can be defined as sudden onset of acute and profuse colorless diarrhea, vomiting, severe dehydration, muscular cramps, cyanosis and in severe cases collapse. Cholera outbreaks can only happen if they reemerged.

TB is a highly contagious bacterial infection, usually affecting the lungs but can also affect other organs of the body like brain, kidney, intestine, and bones. One example of rare TB is Pott's disease is rare infectious disease of the spine which is typically caused by an extraspinal infection.

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