Please Select the FALSE Statement Regarding Plague and Its Transmission

question 27

Multiple Choice

Please select the FALSE statement regarding plague and its transmission.

• A) Plague is caused by a Gram-negative organism and is thus completely untreatable with antibiotics.
• B) Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative organism and thus possess an outer lipopolysaccharide layer.
• C) People can contract plague when they are bitten by fleas from rodents infected with the causative organism.
• D) Y. pestis is typically transmitted by the bites of infected fleas, an example of biological transmission.
• E) The incidence of vector-borne diseases such as plague can be decreased by controlling the vector or the infected hosts.

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