Which step of HIV replication is specifically inhibited by protease inhibitors?
Assembly and release of the virus
Which of the following activities currently puts one at the greatest risk of contracting hepatitis C?
Intravenous drug habit
A 2 year-old boy presents at the emergency room with muscle weakness and increasing paralysis. A history reveals the boy received a flu shot about 8 weeks previously. Differential diagnosis should include the possibility of __________
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Varicella zoster virus establishes latency in __________.
Nerve cells
Which of the following is mismatched?
Salk vaccine - live attenuated polio vaccine
Agent responsible for smallpox?
Variola virus
Which of the following is not a component of Influenza virus?
Reverse transcriptase
Rhinoviruses are a major cause of _____
Upper respiratory tract infections
Disease due to which of the following viruses is least likely directly transmissible from person to person?
Rabies
Which of the following is blood-borne pathogen in the form of an enveloped RNA virus, and is also associated with liver cancer in humans?
Hepatitis C virus
Which of the following conditions in animals or humans is not caused by prions?
Rabies
Hepatitis D virus requires a co-infection with which other virus?
Hepatitis B virus
Which of the following conditions is not associated with a latent period following initial viral infection?
Viral conjunctivitis
Enveloped RNA virus causing bronchitis and pneumonia, where infection is especially dangerous in premature infants with under-developed lungs:
Respiratory syncytial virus
A naked capsid DNA virus which causes upper respiratory tract infections:
Adenovirus
Which of the following signs or symptoms is not associated with viral hepatitis?
Petechial rash
Which of the following viruses has a reservoir in wild birds?
West Nile virus
Cytopathic effects associated with papillomavirus:
Piling up of cells
Common name for a childhood disease which is generally self-limiting in children, but is notorious for causing birth defects when the mother becomes infected during pregnancy:
Mumps
Which of the following vaccines should never be given to a pregnant woman?
MMR vaccine
The nature of the agent which causes Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or mad-cow disease) is a___.
Protein
Effective, long-term immunity-conferring vaccination is currently available for which of the following?
Measles
Which of the following viral infections are not associated with recurring disease later in life?
Mumps virus
Naked capsid DNA virus which causes conjunctivitis:
Adenovirus
Whether viral replication leads to budding of viral particles, or lysis of the host cell, largely depends on___.
The presence or absence of a viral envelope
Immunity conferred by influenza vaccine typically protects the patient by preventing which of the following steps of the viral cycle?
Attachment
A 25 year old man is bitten by a potentially rabid bat during a caving trip. What is the recommended procedure for the treatment of this individual?
A, B and C
A dental hygienist reports a painful rash with blistering on one of her fingers. This description is consistent with ____.
Herpetic whitlow
Which of the following is not commonly associated with cancer in humans?
Herpes simplex virus
Sub-acute sclerosing pan-encephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, delayed consequence of infection by the virus that causes which childhood disease?
Measles
Which of the following is commonly responsible for "hand, foot and mouth disease"?
Coxsackie A virus
The threshold CD4 T cell count, below which patients typically start seeing opportunistic infections associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (in cells/mm3 of blood).
200
The influenza viral protein, hemagglutinin, is important for which step of viral reproduction?
Attachment to epithelial cells
Agent commonly implicated in inflammation of the heart or pericardial sac.
Coxsackievirus
A newspaper published an article about a cruiseship where about 400 passengers were, "struck down with a notorious winter vomiting bug". The agent causing their affliction was likely ____.
Norovirus
Influenza virus
Adenovirus
Enveloped virus
Influenza virus
Influenza virus
Adenovirus
DNA virus
Adenovirus
Influenza virus
Adenovirus
Fecal oral transmission
Adenovirus
Influenza virus
Adenovirus
Occasionally catastrophic pandemics
Influenza
Influenza virus
Adenovirus
Respiratory infections
Both
Measles
Mumps
complications may include encephalitis
Both
Measles
Mumps
Kopliks spots inside mouth
Measles
Measles
Mumps
Vaccine is live-attenuated
Both
Measles
Mumps
Traditional childhood disease
Both
Measles
Mumps
Fecal oral transmission
Neither
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein Barr virus
Herpes virus family
Both
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein Barr virus
Latency in T cells
Neither
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein Barr virus
Agent of infectious mononucleosis
Both
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein Barr virus
May lead to cancer
Epstein Barr virus
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein Barr virus
Latency can be a complication in organ transplantation
Cytomegalovirus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Hepatitis C virus
Retrovirus
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus