week 4 intro to micro

What is bacteria that is normally found in or on our body called?

• opportunist

• normal flora

• true pathogen

• host

What is the term used to r efer to a pathogen that does not normally cause disease but will take advantage if a person has a weakened immune system?

• opportunist

• pathogenicity

• normal flora

• true pathogen

• nonpathogenic

What is the term for a microbe that produces disease called?

• pathogen

• non-pathogenic

• host

• endogenous

• exogenous

What is organism from which a parasite obtains its nourishment called?

• host

• pathogen

• opportunitist

• human vector

• normal flora

What is a condition in which the body or a part of it is invaded by a pathogenic agent that can multiply and produces injurious effects called?

• infectious

• contaminated

• communicable

• infiltration

What is a disease in which the causative agent is directly or indirectly transmitted from host to host called?

• communicable

• non-communicable

• pathogenic

• primary

• systemic

What is the term for the presence of bacteria in the blood but does not grow and mulitply referred to as?

• toxemia

• septicemia

• bacteremia

• blood poisoning

What is the term used to describe the relative power or the extent of an organism to produce disease called?

• pathogenicity

• virulence

• attenuation

• pathogenic

• opportunistic

What is the term used for long term disease called?

• acute

• chronic

• virulent

• endemic

Which of the following describes an infection that has become worldwide such as Covid 19?

• epidemic

• endemic

• sporadic

• pandemic