An 11-year-old girl undergoing a routine surgery at a local hospital develops a surgical-wound infection. Even with aggressive treatment, the girl dies. The infection she developed is best known as

A patient presents with high fever, rash, and neck pain. Lab results show the presence of a Gram-negative diplococcus. The indicated microbe produces an endotoxin that causes internal bleeding (most prominently displayed as small pinpoint hemorrhages); the microbe uses an adhesion mechanism that produces twitching motility, giving the organism the appearance of twitching forward. Based on this information, which of the following adhesion mechanisms is being used by the causative agent?

An epidemiologist studying diphtheria in Eastern Europe gathers information about the total number of active cases in a given area and the number of new cases in that area over a given time. If an epidemic occurs, which of the following would the epidemiologist notice?

Some microbes use tiny molecular syringes, called type  _________  secretion systems, embedded in their membranes to inject proteins directly into the host cytoplasm.

The flu vaccine is typically a cocktail providing protection against several strains of the flu. Which of the following factors related to the flu vaccine may provide some protection against antigenic drift but not antigenic shift?

Of the following physical means of preserving foods, the only method capable of effectively sterilizing food and eliminating pathogens is

Random mutations caused by the error-prone viral RNA polymerase of the influenza virus can cause minor changes in hemagglutinin antigen structure, in a process called 

What is the function of the CDC and the WHO?

An endemic disease will exhibit

Because they can live either inside host cells or free from them, Salmonella and Shigella are each considered to be which type of pathogen?