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Yersinia pestis: Quiz

  
  

Question 1: Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by ________, a Swiss/French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of plague in Hong Kong.
Albert CalmetteYersinia pestisAlexandre YersinPierre Paul Émile Roux

Question 2:
What phylum does Yersinia pestis belong to?

Question 3: Furthermore, Y. pestis survives and produces F1 and V antigens while it is residing within ________ cells such as monocytes, but not in neutrophils.
Blood plasmaRed blood cellPlateletBlood

Question 4:
What is the binomial authority of Yersinia pestis?
van Loghem 1944
Rothm., 1944
Zimmer & Phelps, 1944
Turner, 1944

Question 5:
What domain does Yersinia pestis belong to?

Question 6: The ________ of strain KIM is 4,600,755 base pairs long; the chromosome of strain CO92 is 4,653,728 base pairs long.
AutosomeChromosomal translocationChromosomeKaryotype

Question 7: YopE functions as a GTPase activating protein for members of the Rho family of GTPases such as ________.
RHOBCDC42RAC1RHOA

Question 8:
What genus does Yersinia pestis belong to?
''Yersinia
Brownea
Claoxylon
Centropogon

Question 9:
What kind of animal is a Yersinia pestis?

Question 10: The transmission of Y. pestis by ________ is well characterized.
InsectArthropodMosquitoFlea
















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