QUESTION:Which statement correctly describes a treatment for exposure to bloodborne pathogens?POSSIBLE ANSWERS:All exposures can be treated with antibiotics.Antiviral drugs are ineffective in the treatment of hepatitis B and C.Antiretroviral drugs reduce the likelihood that HIV will be transmitted.Hepatitis C can be prevented with a vaccine.

Many times people visit the doctor requesting antibiotics to treat colds and viral infections. How is the doctor justified in offering the patient treatment options that do not include antibiotics for these cases?Group of answer choicesIf a doctor provides an antibiotic to treat colds and viruses, any bacteria in the patient's body will be killed, but a few will survive. Those few survivors may become resistant to antibiotics needed for real bacterial illnesses.Colds and viruses should be first treated with viral therapies and then when the body begins to recover, antibiotics can be used. Otherwise, the use of antibiotics is not effective at all.Antibiotics can weaken the immune system when used for colds and viruses, whereas other medications are not so hard on the immune system during these types of illnesses.Side effects from antibiotics are severe when used for colds and viruses. Any use of antibiotics for colds and viruses will only make the patient more ill and ultimately make the patient's recovery time longer.

The term antimicrobials describes Blank______.Multiple choice question.a drug given to prevent illness in someone at risk for infectionany drug that works against microbes, no matter which microbes are targetsa drug that works against a wide variety of microbesa drug that works only against bacteria

QUESTION:Which bloodborne pathogen attacks the immune system?POSSIBLE ANSWERS:HIVViral hepatitisHBVHepatitis C

Which of the following drugs can be taken to cure some communicable diseases?AntibioticsPainkillersAntisepticsDecongestants2Which of the following statements about antibiotics is not true? They have greatly reduced deaths from communicable diseasesThey can kill bacterial pathogensResistant strains of bacteria are emergingThey can kill viral pathogens3The first stage of testing a new drug involves computer modelling followed by testing on cells, tissues and animals. What is this stage known as? Clinical trialPlacebo effectDouble blind trialPre-clinical testing4Potential new drugs are tested extensively before they can be licensed. Which of the following best describes the four criteria that new drugs must meet?Effective, cheap, stable, successfully taken into and removed from the bodyEffective, safe, cheap, successfully taken into and removed from the bodyEffective, safe, stable, successfully taken into and removed from the bodyEffective, toxic, stable, successfully taken into and removed from the body5In clinical trials, the placebo looks identical to the drug being tested, but contains:A lower concentration of the drugNone of the drugA higher concentration of the drugA different drug6In which type of clinical trial do neither the patients nor the doctors know who is receiving the drug and who is receiving the placebo?Double blind trialControl trialBlind trialOpen trial

How are the transmission, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases similar to and different from these processes in other diseases?