Multiple-choice test

12 Infectious diseases
Click on the correct answer to each question. 1 2 Which diseases can be transmitted from infected to uninfected people? A B C D cholera and malaria lung cancer and tuberculosis (TB) measles and sickle cell anaemia sickle cell anaemia and smallpox

Which row matches pathogens with the diseases they cause?

Cholera Malaria protoctist bacterium bacterium virus Measles virus protoctist bacterium bacterium Smallpox virus virus protoctist bacterium TB bacterium virus virus protoctist

A B C D

bacterium bacterium virus virus

How are the diseases cholera, malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS transmitted?

Cholera Malaria body fluid water air insect TB water insect body fluid air HIV/AIDS insect air water body fluid

A B C D

air body fluid insect water

Which treatment would not help villagers control the spread of malaria? A B C D draining nearby marshes and covering water surfaces with oil stocking ponds and ditches with fish that eat insect larvae sleeping under nets treated with insecticide taking preventative drugs to which Plasmodium has developed resistance

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Which measure would help control the spread of TB? A B C D preventing overcrowded conditions provision of clean water sewage treatment use of insecticides

Which statements describe the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from an infected to an uninfected person? 1 2 3 4 It is transmitted by a vector. It is transmitted by intimate human contact. It is transmitted by sharing intravenous injection needles. It is transmitted across the placenta from mother to fetus. 1, 2, 3 and 4 2, 3 and 4 only 1 and 3 only 3 and 4 only

A B C D

Which statements explain why injections of vaccine may not provide protection against Vibrio cholerae? 1 V. cholerae bacteria infect the intestine. 2 The toxin produced by V. cholerae acts within the intestine. 3  A vaccine providing protection against one strain of V. cholerae may not provide protection against another strain.

A B C D

1, 2 and 3 1 and 2 only 2 and 3 only 3 only

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What explains why measles is not treated with an antibiotic? A B C D The pathogen causing measles can break down the antibiotic. The pathogen causing measles has become resistant to the antibiotic. The pathogen causing measles has no cellular structure. The pathogen causing measles is too large to be affected by an antibiotic.

The malarial parasite must enter a red blood cell to divide and multiply. To enter, the parasite binds to a protein called basigin on the cell surface membrane of the red blood cell. What could prevent the parasite from entering a red blood cell?

A B C D

an antibiotic that inhibits the synthesis of bacterial cell walls an antiviral drug that prevents the parasite from multiplying a molecule which binds to basigin and blocks its binding site a molecule which binds to the cell surface membranes of mosquito cells

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The diagram shows the effects of two antibiotics, P and R, on a culture of the bacterium Escherichia coli.
Petri dish containing nutrient agar and E. coli

P R

disc of filter paper with antibiotic P

disc of filter paper with antibiotic R

What may be concluded about this strain of E. coli? A B C D Some bacteria are killed by antibiotic P. Some bacteria are killed by antibiotic R. The bacteria are killed by both antibiotics. The bacteria are resistant to antibiotic R.

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