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BIOD171 / BIOD 171 Module 5 (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Essential Microbiology with Lab | Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct - Portage Learning
Question:
Pus-filled lesions on skin or hair
Answer:
folliculitis
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Ruptured pustules; treated with penicillin
Answer:
scalded-skin syndrome
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Question:
True or False. The causative agent of conjunctivitis can be either bacterial or viral.
Answer:
True
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True or False. An acid-fast stain is best suited to identify tuberculosis (as opposed to a Gram stain).
Answer:
True
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True or False. When located outside of the lung, TB is usually non-infectious.
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True
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It is a small, acid-fast rod usually remaining asymptomatic for up to 20 years.It affects the skin, nerves, upper respiratory tract, and eyes of infected individuals.
Answer:
Hansens disease
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True or False. Only directly ingesting the pre-formed clostridium toxin (neither the bacteria nor its spores) will cause disease in adults.
Answer:
True
Question:
While visiting his grandparents, a 10-year-old child has green beans for dinner that were harvested from his grandparents' garden and canned the previous year. Severe illness sets in and the child is taken to the hospital. Botulism is suspected, but what form?
Answer:
Foodborne botulism. The child is too old (> 6 months) to be considered for infant botulism and wounds were not present. The green beans were likely improperly canned and under the low-acidic, anaerobic conditions, bacterial growth was encouraged.
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