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-|1a. Obligate intracellular parasites are microbes that can not reproduce outside of a host cell 1b. I believe rickettsia and chlymidia 1c. Rickettsia are arthropod borne and chlamydia is sexually transmitted? For 1c, I was looking for how the bacteria enter a host cell. Specifically Rickettsia an...

1a. What are obligate intracellular parasites?
1b. Name two cellular examples.
1c. For the two examples, describe how they enter a host cell.

Some antibiotic questions a. What do all penicillin- based drugs have structurally in common? b. What enzyme is responsible for resistance to penicillin? c. What are 4 mechanisms of antibiotic resistance? d. What are two possible downsides to penicillin? e. Provide the name effect that occurs when ...

Don't forget to hide|Depending on the deadliness of the disease, how fast it is traveling, and how many people are potential reservoirs, you should use different types of case definitions to possibly stop the disease faster. My answer|You should use a specific case definition, especially in the beg...

Ok, that makes a lot more sense. I had no idea what you meant by "assume those lost to follow-up are disease free for half of the year;" apparently I didn't need that? You still have to count them toward the person-years observed. I ended up with 13717.5 person-years. Ignoring them here j...

Time for me to start studying for this event again...|Assuming I'm just suppose to halve the number lost to follow up and add it on: 0.0521 Hm, may I see your work? I got a different answer of 1.17 cases per 1,000 person-years . This is the source I used: https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss197...

A bit late|A Minnesota health department enrolled 3,000 (healthy) individuals for 5 years to estimate the incidence rate of Hepatitis C in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. These people were called up annually, and the results are as follow: After the 1st year, 2 individuals had a new diagnosis fo...

Question|For each of the three major types of epi curves, give one characteristic of its histogram, and one characteristic of the outbreak itself that could cause that type of curve. Answer|Common Source: A single, one-time exposure results in a single peak. Food-borne illness from a convention is ...

Whoops. I should have checked first. Give this one to Unome.

Sorry if this is long... I got carried away. General questions 1. Distribution is defined as the _________ and ____________ of the disease. (fill in the blanks) 2. Define surveillance. 3. The epidemiological triangle is made up of what 3 (or 4) things? 4. Define latency period. Outbreak investigati...