A4 A4 1 / 5 The monitoring of influenza-like illness is a form of syndromic surveillance immunological diagnosis microbiological screening molecular study specimen culture 2 / 5 Diagnosis of an infection can be made by all of the following methods except detecting host response to the infection direct visualization of the pathogen detecting antigen of the pathogen determining the basic reproductive number examining culture characteristic of collected specimen 3 / 5 Gram stain is used for detecting some bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis virus parasites insects 4 / 5 Which of the following is not a characteristic of pathogen as revealed by Gram stain? positive staining cocci negative staining bacilli positive staining bacilli negative staining cocci acid fast bacilli 5 / 5 In the investigation of an infection, antibody detection often comes before antigen detection the presence of antibody usually indicates active disease there is no window period for antibody detection antibody detection may mean past or current infection antigen detection is often more sensitive than antibody detection Your score isThe average score is 63% 0% Restart quiz