Self Quiz for Bacterial Pathogenicity: Factors that Promote Colonization of the Host
1. The Ability to Contact Host Cells

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
Do not just click on the answers and write them out. This will not test your understanding of this tutorial.

1. State why it might be of an advantage for a bacterium trying to colonize the bladder or the intestines to be motile. (ans)

2. Briefly describe how the spirochete Treponema pallidum that causes syphilis uses its motility to disseminate from the initial infection site to other parts of the body. (ans)

3. Give a brief description of how a bacterium may use toxins to better disseminate from one host to another. (ans)

4. Multiple Choice (ans)

• RETURN TO "BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY: FACTORS THAT PROMOTE COLONIZATION OF THE HOST - THE ABILITY TO CONTACT HOST CELLS AND DISSEMINATE WITHIN THE HOST"

• RETURN TO UNIT 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.

Last updated: October, 2018
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