List the causative agent, method of transmission, and reservoir for schistosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, and Chagas disease. Which disease are you most likely to get in the United States? Where are the other diseases endemic?

Which of the following does not have an animal reservoir or vector?

a. listeriosis

b. cryptococcosis

c. amebic meningoencephalitis

d. rabies

e. African trypanosomiasis

Compare and contrast epidemic typhus, endemic murine typhus, and tickborne typhus.

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List the causative agent and method of transmission of infectious mononucleosis.

Most people have been infected with this microorganism, often without symptoms. Infection during pregnancy can result in deafness or intellectual disabilities in the newborn.

Use the following choices to answer questions 1 through 4:

a. ehrlichiosis

b. Lyme disease

c. septic shock

d. toxoplasmosis

e. viral hemorrhagic fever

A patient presents with a history of fever and headache. Bacterial cultures of blood, CSF, and stool are negative. What is your diagnosis?

Nineteen workers in a slaughterhouse developed fever and chills, with the fever spiking to

40°C each evening. The most likely method of transmission of this disease is

a. a vector.

b. the respiratory route.

c. a puncture wound.

d. an animal bite.

e. water.