NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING
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Question
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Sarah contracted Lyme’s disease from a tick. In the chain of infection, the tick is the:
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causative agent
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reservior
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susceptible host
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mode of transmission
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Lyme disease is transmitted by the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) in the northeastern U.S. and upper midwestern U.S. and the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) along the Pacific coast.
Detailed explanation-2: -burgdorferi is the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), but chipmunks (Tamias striatus), short-tailed and masked shrews (Blarina brevicauda and Sorex cinereus), and eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) also serve as infectious hosts.
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