QUESTION 8: Which of the following is an unsuitable culture method for an animal virus?
A. Direct inoculation of virus onto blood agar B. Live animal inoculation C. Tissue culture method D. Injection of virus into embryonated eggs
QUESTION 9: An elderly patient who contracted chickenpox as a child now has shingles as an adult. You explain to your patient that both diseases are caused by the same virus, which lays dormant in the body prior to reactivation. Based on this information, choose the true statement.
A. Infected host cells will carry a provirus until sufficient viral load has been reached. B. Your patient's infection is best characterized as an acute, non-persistent infection. C. Viral replication occurs as a steady, logarithmic increase over time. D. During dormant periods, the virus exists episomally inside of infected host cells.
QUESTION 10: While hiking, your patient was bitten by a rabid raccoon. Your patient denies having any previous rabies vaccinations. Which of the following antiviral medications should be administered to your patient to prevent viral attachment to host cells?
A. Docosanol B. Palivizumab C. HRIG D. Ribavirin
QUESTION 11: A young patient who underwent surgical placement of depth electrodes for epilepsy treatment contracted a prion disease. Cortical electrode probes are known to be reused in patients. Based on this information, which of the following prion diseases did the young patient most likely contract?
A. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease B. Inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease C. Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease D. Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
QUESTION 12: In the Spring of 2009, a novel H1N1 virus emerged that had a new combination of genes from pigs, humans, and birds. As a result, the virus spread quickly, resulting in a swine flu pandemic. Which of the following concepts explains why the outbreak occurred?
A. Antigenic shift B. Antigenic drift C. Attenuation D. Narrow tropism
QUESTION 8: Which of the following is an unsuitable culture method for an animal virus?
| A. Direct inoculation of virus onto blood agar |
| B. Live animal inoculation |
| C. Tissue culture method |
| D. Injection of virus into embryonated eggs |
QUESTION 9: An elderly patient who contracted chickenpox as a child now has shingles as an adult. You explain to your patient that both diseases are caused by the same virus, which lays dormant in the body prior to reactivation. Based on this information, choose the true statement.
| A. Infected host cells will carry a provirus until sufficient viral load has been reached. |
| B. Your patient's infection is best characterized as an acute, non-persistent infection. |
| C. Viral replication occurs as a steady, logarithmic increase over time. |
| D. During dormant periods, the virus exists episomally inside of infected host cells. |
QUESTION 10: While hiking, your patient was bitten by a rabid raccoon. Your patient denies having any previous rabies vaccinations. Which of the following antiviral medications should be administered to your patient to prevent viral attachment to host cells?
| A. Docosanol |
| B. Palivizumab |
| C. HRIG |
| D. Ribavirin |
QUESTION 11: A young patient who underwent surgical placement of depth electrodes for epilepsy treatment contracted a prion disease. Cortical electrode probes are known to be reused in patients. Based on this information, which of the following prion diseases did the young patient most likely contract?
| A. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
| B. Inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
| C. Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
| D. Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
QUESTION 12: In the Spring of 2009, a novel H1N1 virus emerged that had a new combination of genes from pigs, humans, and birds. As a result, the virus spread quickly, resulting in a swine flu pandemic. Which of the following concepts explains why the outbreak occurred?
| A. Antigenic shift |
| B. Antigenic drift |
| C. Attenuation |
| D. Narrow tropism |
