Question

2. Jolin likes to eat healthy, and avoids processed and frozen foods. She likes to buy organic, and unprocessed food from the local store. This local store is known for their specialty that everything is organic, and naturally made at their own farm and other local farms. Jolin’s favorite is the goat cheese that is sold at this store. Now that she is pregnant, she eats this cheese every day.

a. What type of infection she can get from this cheese? (2 pts)

b. Name the disease causing agent? (1 pt)

c. Is her baby at risk with this infection? If yes, what will happen to her baby? (2 pts)

3. Your patient is suffering from Jaundice. His blood report shows that his liver enzymes are high, especially alanine transferase.

a. What type of disease is he suffering from, and how is it transmitted? (2 pts)

b. What are the disease causing agents? (2 pts)

c. Is there a vaccine available to prevent this disease? (1)

Answer 1

1.

a) brucellosis will be the Disease affected from the goat cheese. affected from goat to human

b) Brucella melitensis is the organism that causing this infection in humans.

c) there is high risk to the baby. it cause spontaneous abortion in human occasionally. the mother could lose the baby.

2)

a) the disease will be hepatitis. this resulting inflammation of liver.

b) hepatitis b virus causing this state of disease in humans

c) Hepatitis b has vaccines . this is commonly known hepatitis b vaccines. this vaccine can prevent the Disease completely