42.  Pregnancy and Menopause are often associated with higher rates of urinary tract infections, EXPLAIN.

30.  Mike is one of your regular patients at a homeless clinic where you are a volunteer Nurse.  He has severe cough and looks thing.  Last week you sent Mike’s sputum sample to the laboratory and requested a gram stain and an Acid Fast stain.  The stains results are posted in his chart this morning and it says: “Acid Fast +”.  What infection does mike have? (1pt). Name one antimicrobial agent that can be used to treat this infection? (1 pt.)

12.  A 35-year old famer stepped on a rusty nail and does not remember the last time he had a tetanus shot.  For maximum treatment, he was given a Tetanus Vaccine and a Tetanus Immune Globulin (TIG). What type of immunity would this type of treatment confer to the farmer?

a) Solve the following 2nd order ordinary differential equation using ode45 to find y(t). Here L = 5. Use a time span ranging from 0 to 30 with plenty of time values in between. Once you have the solution, have your program plot it versus time (time in the x-axis). b) Solve the following integral using int and display the result on the command window.

23.  Several hours after a picnic to celebrate the end of microbiology class, some of the students began to experience nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain which lasted for about 24 hours.  A culture from the picnic food grows gram + aerobic endospore forming rods.  The most likely etiology of the food poisoning is:

41.  Name 2 types of Leprosy and the test you can use to differentiate them.

9. True/False:  Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPS) are components on the pathogen to which the Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) bind.

39.  Name 2 of the 3 Reservoirs of infection we discussed in class and for each Reservoir, name a disease of medical importance associated with it. (4pts)                         a) Reservoir———————————–Disease———————————-               b) Reservoir———————————–Disease———————————-

4. Which organism is the least infectious?

27.  TRUE/FALSE:  Hepatitis A belongs to the family Picornaviridae and can be transmitted sexually.