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Chapters 2-4
Which of the following is a condition which may occur during the incubation period?
Transmission of infection
Chicken pox is a highly communicable disease. It may be transmitted by direct contact with a person
infected with the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). The typical incubation time is between 10 to 20 days.
A boy started school 2 weeks after showing symptoms of chicken pox including mild fever, skin
rash, & fluid-filled blisters. One month after the boy returned to school, none of his classmates had
been infected by VZV. The main reason was:
Contact was after infectious period
The ability of a single person to remain free of clinical illness following exposure to an infectious
agent is known as:
Immunity
Which of the following is characteristic of a single-exposure, common-vehicle outbreak?
The epidemic curve has a normal distribution when plotted against the logarithm of time
What is the diarrhea attack rate in persons who ate both ice cream & pizza?
39/52
What is the overall attack rate in persons who did not eat ice cream?
33%
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Which of the food items (or combination of items) is most likely to be the infective item(s)?
Ice cream only
Which of the following reasons can explain why a person who did not consume the infective food
item got sick?
They were directly exposed to persons who did eat the infective food item Diarrhea is a general symptom consistent
There may have been an inaccurate recall of which foods were eaten (all of the above)
An outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a boarding school with a student enrollment of 846. Fifty-
seven students reported symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, & low-grade fever between
10 p.m. on September 24 & 8 p.m. on September 25. The ill students lived in dormitories that housed
723 of the students. The table below provides information on the number of students per type of
residence & the number reporting illnesses consistent with the described symptoms & onset time.
Calculate the attack rate among all students at the boarding school.
The answer is found by dividing the total number of cases (57) by the total number of students (846).
This equals 6.7%.
An outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a boarding school with a student enrollment of 846. Fifty-
seven students reported symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, & low-grade fever between
10 p.m. on September 24 & 8 p.m. on September 25. The ill students lived in dormitories that housed
723 of the students. The table below provides information on the number of students per type of
residence & the number reporting illnesses consistent with the described symptoms & onset time.
Calculate the attack rates for boys & girls separately.
For boys, the attack rate includes all cases (40 + 3) divided by the total number of students who are
boys (380 + 46). The attack rate is 10.1%.
For girls, the attack rate includes all cases (12 + 2) divided by the total number of students who are girls
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(343 + 77). The attack rate is 3.3%.
An outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a boarding school with a student enrollment of 846. Fifty-
seven students reported symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, & low-grade fever between
10 p.m. on September 24 & 8 p.m. on September 25. The ill students lived in dormitories that housed
723 of the students. The table below provides information on the number of students per type of
residence & the number reporting illnesses consistent with the described symptoms & onset time.
What is the proportion of total cases occurring in boys?
The proportion of cases occurring in boys is equal to the number of cases in boys divided by the total
number of cases (43/57). This equals 75.4%.
An outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a boarding school with a student enrollment of 846. Fifty-
seven students reported symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, & low-grade fever between
10 p.m. on September 24 & 8 p.m. on September 25. The ill students lived in dormitories that housed
723 of the students. The table below provides information on the number of students per type of
residence & the number reporting illnesses consistent with the described symptoms & onset time.
What is the proportion of total cases occurring in students who live in dormitories?
The proportion of cases occurring in dormitory residents is equal to the number of cases in residents
divided by the total number of cases (52/57). This equals 91.2%.
An outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a boarding school with a student enrollment of 846. Fifty-
seven students reported symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, & low-grade fever between
10 p.m. on September 24 & 8 p.m. on September 25. The ill students lived in dormitories that housed
723 of the students. The table below provides information on the number of students per type of
residence & the number reporting illnesses consistent with the described symptoms & onset time.
Which proportion is more informative for the purpose of the outbreak investigation?
Both proportions are useful. Dormitory residents account for over 90% of the cases indicating an
outbreak of an infectious agent that was transmitted at the school. Furthermore, over 75% of the cases
were boys indicating that the responsible agent was more likely to have been transmitted in the boys’
dormitory.
A group of researchers are interested in conducting a clinical trial to determine whether a new
cholesterol-lowering agent was useful in preventing coronary heart disease (CHD). They identified
12,327 potential participants for the trial. At the initial clinical exam, 309 were discovered to have
CHD. The remaining subjects entered the trial & were divided equally into the treatment &
placebo groups. Of those in the treatment group, 505 developed CHD after 5 years of follow-up
while 477 developed CHD during the same period in the placebo group. What was the prevalence
of CHD at the initial exam?
The prevalence of CHD at the initial exam was 309 cases of CHD divided by 12,327 participants. This
equals a prevalence of 25.1 cases of CHD per 1,000 persons.
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A group of researchers are interested in conducting a clinical trial to determine whether a new
cholesterol-lowering agent was useful in preventing coronary heart disease (CHD). They identified
12,327 potential participants for the trial. At the initial clinical exam, 309 were discovered to have
CHD. The remaining subjects entered the trial & were divided equally into the treatment &
placebo groups. Of those in the treatment group, 505 developed CHD after 5 years of follow-up
while 477 developed CHD during the same period in the placebo group. What was the incidence of
CHD during the 5-year study?
The incidence rate reflects the number of new cases developing in the population at risk. Since
prevalent CHD cases were excluded from the study, the population at risk was 12,018 (12,327 persons
less 309 cases of CHD). During the 5-year study period, 982 incident cases of CHD developed. This
equals an incidence rate of 81.7 cases of CHD per 1,000 persons.
Which of the following are examples of a population prevalence rate?
The number of persons with hypertension per 100,000 population
What would be the effect on age-specific incidence rates of uterine cancer if women with
hysterectomies were excluded from the denominator of incidence calculations assuming that most
women who have had hysterectomies are older than 50 years of age.
Rates would increase in women older than 50 years of age but may decrease in younger women as they get
older.
A survey was conducted among 1,000 r&omly sampled adult males in the United States in 2005. The
results from this survey are shown below.
The researchers stated that there was a doubling of risk of hypertension in each age group younger
than 60 years of age. You conclude that the researchers’ interpretation:
Is incorrect because prevalence rates are
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