Biology, 17.07.2021 01:00, mianelson367
During a six-month period, 239 cases of pneumonia occurred in a town of 300 people. A clinical case was defined as fever 39°C lasting > days with three or more symptoms (i. e., chills, sweats, severe headache, cough, aching muscles/joints, fatigue, or feeling ill). A laboratory-confirmed case was defined as a positive result for antibodies against Coxiella burnetii. Before the outbreak, 2000 sheep were kept northwest of the town. Of the 20 sheep tested from the flock, 15 were positive for C. burnetii antibodies. Wind blew from the northwest, and rainfall was 0.5 cm compared with 7 to 10 cm during each of the previous three years.
Situation 14.1 is an example of
A) human reservoirs.
B) a zoonosis.
C) a nonliving reservoir.
D) a vector
E) a focal infection.
The etiologic agent of the disease in Situation 14.1 is
A) sheep
B) soil.
C) Coxiella burnetii.
D) pneumonia.
E) wind.
The method of transmission of the disease in Situation 14.1 was
A) direct contact
B) droplet
C) indirect contact.
D) vector-borne.
E) vehicle.
A symptom of the disease was
A) fever
B) sweats
C) cough
D) aching muscles
E) None of the above
The portal of entry for the pathogen was
A) gastrointestinal
B) skin
C) respiratory
D) urinary
E) None of the above
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Biology, 22.06.2019 00:10, amulets5239
Body systems are not completely independent they integrate and work together describe one example of the integration between body systems
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