TEST BANK FOR MICROBIOLOGY FOR SURGICAL TECHNOLOGISTS 2ND EDITION RODRIGUEZ

1. Robert Hooke was the first to use the term ______________ to describe the small honeycomb-like spaces seen in cork. ANSWER: cell 2. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned a scientific study by ________ to address spoiling of beer and wine. ANSWER: Louis Pasteur 3. The hemorrhagic fever known as ________________ was first described in 1976 in Zaire, Africa. ANSWER: Ebola 4. Letters laced with _________________ sent through the US Postal Service to media outlet offices represented an act of domestic bioterrorism in 2001. ANSWER: anthrax 5. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) is a special section within the __________________________________ which develops guidelines for healthcare workers to prevent disease transmission in the workplace. ANSWER: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 6. Surgical technologists and other team members utilize all of the following to prevent disease transmission in the operating room EXCEPT: a. Aseptic and sterile techniques b. Other potentially infectious materials c. Personal protective equipment d. Surgical conscience ANSWER: b 7. Which early pioneer in microbiology first theorized that disease was spread through direct contact or airborne transmission? a. Girolamo Fracastoro b. Edward Jenner c. John Needham d. Francesco Redi ANSWER: a 8. Semmelweis tried implementing strict hand hygiene protocols to reduce the fatality rate in post-partum patients from which of the following diseases? a. Anthrax b. Puerperal fever c. Smallpox d. Typhoid fever ANSWER: b 9. Robert Koch developed which of the following laboratory technique which is now a standard method for culturing bacterial colonies? a. Pasteurization by heating b. S-shaped flasks with broth c. Streak plate wire-loop method d. Variolation from pustules ANSWER: c 10. Which of the following pioneers in microbiology first proposed that microbes can be classified as either aerobic or anaerobic? a. Edward Jenner b. Joseph Lister c. Robert Koch d. Louis Pasteur ANSWER: d Match the term or phrase with the correct description. a. Method used to determine immunity or susceptibility to diphtheria b. A hypothesis or basic assumption based on scientific study and deduction c. Early theory that living things spontaneously arise from non-living materials d. Inoculation of a healthy individual with fluid from cowpox pustules to gain immunity e. Term used by von Leeuwenhoek to describe microscopic organisms f. The process of passing genetic material between bacterial cells g. Extensive, possibly world-wide disease outbreak involving large groups h. Early theory that disease was spread by “bad air" i. Any agent capable of destroying all microbial life, including spores j. Condition of being vulnerable to disease due to ineffective natural body defenses 11. abiogenesis ANSWER: c 12. animalcules ANSWER: e 13. conjugation ANSWER: f 14. immunocompromised ANSWER: d 15. miasma theory ANSWER: h 16. pandemic ANSWER: g 17. postulate ANSWER: b 18. Schick test ANSWER: a 19. sterilant ANSWER: i 20. variolation ANSWER: d 21. A surgical conscience is something that pertains exclusively to surgical technologists, not others. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 22. Semmelweis identified that medical students were responsible for the high mortality rate from puerperal fever in post-partum patients. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 23. Pasteur reduced post-operative wound infections by soaking dressings in carbolic acid and spraying it over surgical set-ups. a. True b. False ANSWER: False