Climate Change and Infectious Diseases — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Ebola virus can remain in semen for up to _____ months

Answer: 18 months

Extra: Recent studies and guidelines (following the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak) have shown that Ebola virus can persist in the semen of male survivors for up to 18 months. WHO recommends that male survivors of EVD should practice safe sex and good hygiene for 12 months from onset of symptoms or until their semen tests negative twice for Ebola virus.

Flashcard 2: Plasmodium _____ has the shortest incubation period.

Answer: falciparum

Flashcard 3: Ascoli's thermoprecipitin test is an example of a _____ precipitation test.

Answer: ring

Flashcard 4: For both Brugia malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti, the infective form to man is _____ larva.

Answer: third stage filariform

Flashcard 5: _____ antigen is highly specific for dengue and detectable from day one of fever

Answer: NS1

Flashcard 6: The vector for transmission of _____ is a tsetse fly

Answer: Trypanosoma brucei

Flashcard 7: Delhi boil is caused by Leishmania _____ complex (old world leishmaniasis)

Answer: tropica

Flashcard 8: Neutrophilic extracellular traps (NETs) are mainly effective against bacteria and _____.

Answer: fungi