Biology 251 Exam 4 Flash Cards

1. What is the most deadly of the foodborne diseases?

2. What is an Exotoxin, endotoxin, neurotoxin, Enterotoxin?

3. Describe the characteristics of the causative agent of botulism.

4. Why is it difficult to determine if food is contaminated with botulism?

5. What are the symptoms of botulism?

6. What effect does the botulism toxin have on nerve cells?

7. How is botulism treated?

8. What safety measure can be used to destroy toxin in canned foods?

9. What is botox?

10. What are the differences between botulism and Staphlyococcal food poisonings?

11. What are the different types of botulism?

12. What are the symptoms of Staphylococcal food poisoning? How quickly do symptoms appear?

13. What is the most common mode of transmission for Staphylococcal food poisoning?

14. What is the causative agent of Clostridial food poisoning?

15. What foods are associated with Clostridial food poisoning? What are the symptoms and how can it be avoided.

16. What is Listeriosis?

17. What causes Listeriosis and who is most susceptible?

18. What causes travelers diarrhea?

19. Which E. coli strain is associated with under cooked hamburger and Jack-in-the-Box restaurant?

20. Why should infants under one not be fed honey?

21. What are the symptoms of Salmonellosis?

22. What foods are associated with salmonella outbreaks?

23. What are the symptoms of Salmonella typhi?

24. What aids the S. typhi organisms in its ability to be transmitted?

25. What is salmonella typhi?

26. Treatment of S. typhi is with what drug?

27. What organ may be removed to stop a person from being a carrier of S. typhi?

28. What are the general symptoms of dysentery?

29. What type of organism is shigella?

30. What is the general pathogenesis of shigella?

31. Is there immunization available for shigella?

32. What organism causes cholera?

33. What are the symptoms of cholera?

34. Why is cholera more deadly than some of the other foodborne infections?

35. What is the standard treatment for cholera?

36. Describe the foodborne infections?

37. Describe the foodborne intoxications?

38. What organism causes anthrax and what are the characteristics of it?

39. Who is more susceptible to contracting anthrax

39.1 What are the types of Anthrax

40. Which organism causes tetanus?

41. Would tetanus be a candidate for irradication? Why or why not?

42. What are the symptoms of tetanus?

43. How is tetanus treated and is there a vaccine available?

44. What is gangrene?

45. What organism causes gas gangrene?

46. What treatment is often necessary in gangrene?

47. Why is anthrax an enzootic disease?

48. What animal has a vaccine for lyme disease?

49. What animal has a vaccine for anthrax? When are these animals typically vaccinated for anthrax?

50. What organism causes bubonic and pneumonic plague?

51. What are the mortality rates for untreated bubonic and pneumonic plague?

52. Which disease can be treated with maggots? Why is this treatment successful?

53. How is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme disease spread?

54. What are the stages of Lyme disease?