5 Written Questions

1. heterophile antibody test showing absorption by bovine erythrocytes but not guinea pig cells is positive for what infectious agent
2. vector transmits infection through feces
3. vector for filariasis
4. hyperimmune response during second infection leads to ruptured blood vessels, internal bleeding, shock, and possibly death
5. histological characteristic is reactive lymphocyte and/or smudge cells

4 Matching Questions

1. yellow fever virus
2. candida albicans
3. Trypanosoma cruzi
4. dengue fever

1. a 1/2 of all candida infections
2. b has a third phase of infection displaying the following: delirium, seizures, coma, hepatic degeneration, black vomit from intestinal hemorrhage
3. c causes chagas' disease
4. d phase 1 of infection characterized by "breakbone fever"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. severest form of malaria
   1. plasmodium falciparum
   2. plasmodium malariae
   3. candida albicans
   4. S. haematobium
2. occasionally cause CNS lesions in the spinal cord
   1. B. microti, B. divergens
   2. S. haematobium
   3. S. mansoni, S. haematobium
   4. S. mansoni, S. japonicum
3. causes swimmers itch
   1. S. cercariae
   2. S. haematobium
   3. malaria
   4. S. japonicum
4. causes acute schistosomiasis - katayama's fever
   1. S. mansoni, S. haematobium
   2. S. japonicum
   3. B. microti, B. divergens
   4. S. mansoni, S. japonicum
5. vector for african sleeping sickness
   1. babesiosis
   2. dengue fever
   3. tsetse fly
   4. sandflies

5 True/False Questions

1. infectious mononucleosis → characterized by an increase in mononuclear lymphocytes

   True        False

2. plasmodium vivax, plasmodium ovale → causes relapsing malaria

   True        False

3. duffyA(FYa) and DuffyB (FYb) → gives protection from plasmodium parasite, more common among African Americans

   True        False

4. B. microti, B. divergens → most common parasite(s) causing babesiosis

   True        False

5. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency → acute african sleeping sickness

   True        False