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Microbiology Practice Test: Microbial Agents of Disease - Fungi and Protozoa
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Microbial Agents of Disease - Fungi and Protozoa topics include: Diseases caused by fungi and protozoa, therapeutic drugs for fungal treatment and protozoan diseases. Fungi and protozoa are both microscopic organisms that can cause disease.  Fungi  Fungi are microbes with chitin in their cell walls. Examples of fungal infections include athlete's foot.  Histoplasmosis is a fungal disease caused by the yeast Histoplasma capsulatum.  Protozoa  Protozoa are single-celled organisms that sometimes cause diseases. Common protozoan diseases include: Malaria, Giardiasis,... Show more
Microbiology Practice Test: Microbial Agents of Disease - Fungi and Protozoa
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1. How much time does it take for the rupture of infected erythrocytes with P. vivax?
2. Animals that are routinely infected with a protozoan or parasite are termed as _______________
3. Which of the following antibiotics causes inhibition of ergosterol biosynthesis?
4. Blastomyces brasiliensis causes which of the following disease?
5. Where are the protozoa present during the acute stage of Chagas’ disease?
6. African sleeping sickness is caused by _______________
7. Which drug is used for the treatment of leishmaniasis?
8. The systemic mycoses are caused mainly by air-borne organisms.
9. Ringworm of the scalp is known as ______________
10. Moniliasis disease is caused by ________________
11. Which of the following disease is an infection of the reticuloendothelial system?
12. Black piedra is a fungus infection of the ___________
13. African sleeping sickness is caused by which of the following protozoa?
14. 5-fluorocytosine is which type of antibiotic?
15. Which of the following animallike flagellates has a flagellum originating from the midportion of the cell?
16. Leishmania organism are transmitted to humans by ______________
17. Miconazole is active against which of the following fungal infections?
18. Which of the following does not grow in Sabouraud’s glucose agar media?
19. After how many days of infection by mosquitoes do the symptoms for malaria occur?
20. Fungus diseases that occur on the nails, skin, hair are referred to as systemic mycoses.
21. Tinea versicolor is caused by _______________
22. For the malaria protozoa, mosquitoes are the definitive host.
23. Laboratory diagnosis of Entamoeba histolytica depends on identification in the ___________
24. Chagas’ disease is transmitted to humans by ________________
25. Most commonly Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae causes malaria in humans.

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