Biology of Disease

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Answers to Questions


CHAPTER 1



  1. c

  2. b

  3. c

  4. When using reference ranges, it is necessary to appreciate that only
    95% of healthy individuals lie within them. This means there is a 5%
    chance of a healthy person having a value outside the range, so it is
    95% probable that the individual is Mg2+deficient.


CHAPTER 2



  1. HIV virus


Treponema pallidum bacterium


Trypanosoma brucei protozoan


Candida albicans yeast


Microsporumspecies fungus



  1. Clostridium perfringens gas gangrene


Epstein-Barr virus glandular fever


HIV CD4


Human rhinovirus 91 intracellular adhesion molecule


Microsporumspp,Trichophytonspecies athlete’s foot


Plasmodium malaria


Sarcoptes scabies scabies


Shigellae dysenteriae shigellosis


Trypanosoma brucei sleeping sickness


Varicella zoster chicken pox


Yersinia pestis bubonic plague

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