An antibody is any substance capable of triggering an immune response.
  • True
  • False
You want to decrease your risk of developing an infectious disease. Which of the following factors can you control?
  • trichomoniasis.
  • Candidiasis
  • Nutritional status
  • exercising regularly.
You woke up this morning with the worst headache of your life and you feel nauseous. . Your neck feels so stiff that you can hardly nod your head. Your roommate says your skin is very hot and you probably have a fever. Which of the following statements is true?
  • You have meningitis. Both you and your roommate should contact and go to the student health clinic immediately.
  • chlamydia.
  • Marie should go to the clinic to get tested for gonorrhea and treated if she has it.
  • hepatitis B.
When Maria's boyfriend returned for the health clinic, he told her he had been diagnosed with gonorrhea. Which of the following statement is true?
  • avoid exposure to the plants that triggers your symptoms.
  • Getting a chill has no effect on a person's immunity.
  • Marie should go to the clinic to get tested for gonorrhea and treated if she has it.
  • infertility and ectopic pregnancy
Every time you eat something that contains yellow dye, you wheeze and get a rash. The dye must be an
  • prion.
  • antigen.
  • endemic.
  • pathogens.
Barry just found out his HIV test is positive. Which of the following statements is true?
  • avoid exposure to the plants that triggers your symptoms.
  • Barry should seek treatment as soon as possible to slow progression of the disease.
  • Marie should go to the clinic to get tested for gonorrhea and treated if she has it.
  • improved sanitation
All of the following must happen for a disease to occur EXCEPT
  • they can reproduce outside of cells.
  • an agent must transmit a disease.
  • exercising regularly.
  • Getting a chill has no effect on a person's immunity.
The major risk factor for chronic bronchitis is
  • endemic.
  • cigarette smoking.
  • secondary syphilis.
  • Nutritional status
Misty, now 31, has been trying to get pregnant since she got married 4 years ago. Her doctor suspects that their infertility problem was likely caused by her history of PID from the most commonly reported STI in the United States. During her early 20s, Misty had contracted
  • Candidiasis
  • chlamydia.
  • Rickettsia
  • hepatitis B.
Betthany is 42 and has cervical cancer. It is probably related to an infection she had during her college years, which was
  • Candidiasis
  • prion.
  • antigen.
  • syphilis
Amy contracted the flu. Getting a flu shot now will enable her body to attack and eliminate the flu virus in her system.
  • True
  • False
Tuberculosis (TB), largely controlled in the United States since 1950, has seen a resurgence in the last 20 years as a result of all the following EXCEPT
  • secondary syphilis.
  • improved sanitation
  • Migraine
  • a mosquito bite.
Microscopic organisms that are disease-causing agents are called
  • endemic.
  • Influenza
  • pathogens.
  • antigen.
You suffer from hay fever. The best way for you to minimize or prevent the symptoms of hay fever is to
  • secondary syphilis.
  • avoid exposure to the plants that triggers your symptoms.
  • exercising regularly.
  • Marie should go to the clinic to get tested for gonorrhea and treated if she has it.
The terms HIV and AIDS are synonymous and can be used interchangeably.
  • True
  • False
A rise in body temperature that occurs to destroy invading cells is a(n)
  • prion.
  • antigen.
  • fever.
  • False
The stage of syphilis that is characterized by a bacterial-filled chancre is
  • exercising regularly.
  • allergic response.
  • secondary syphilis.
  • cigarette smoking.
Which of the following is NOT a bacterial infection or caused by a bacterial infection?
  • Influenza
  • Candidiasis
  • Rickettsia
  • antigen.
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
  • True
  • False
Once a month Jason experiences a headache that is severe, lasts 6-8 hours, and is accompanied by vomiting and extreme sensitivity to light. He most likely has these types of headaches.
  • Migraine
  • endemic.
  • a mosquito bite.
  • Candidiasis
All bacteria can cause disease in humans.
  • True
  • False
Rates of most STIs have decreased in recent years.
  • True
  • False
The hands are the greatest source of infectious disease transmission.
  • True
  • False
All of the following are true about viruses EXCEPT
  • Getting a chill has no effect on a person's immunity.
  • exercising regularly.
  • an agent must transmit a disease.
  • they can reproduce outside of cells.
The common cold is always present in the population, meaning that it is
  • endemic.
  • pathogens.
  • fever.
  • antigen.
David got very ill with an E.coli infection while living on his grandfather's dairy farm last summer. He could have been infected in all of the following ways EXCEPT
  • autoinoculation.
  • hepatitis B.
  • a mosquito bite.
  • trichomoniasis.
When the body overreacts to a specific antigen, which is a hypersensitivity reaction, this is a(n)
  • secondary syphilis.
  • allergic response.
  • Nutritional status
  • exercising regularly.
Proper use of a condom during sexual activity does not guarantee protection against STIs.
  • True
  • False
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