You Are Reviewing for Your Nursing School Entry Exam with Your

question 13

Multiple Choice

You are reviewing for your nursing school entry exam with your study group. Each person in the group agrees to cover one disease. You select toxoplasmosis for your presentation. Toxoplasmosis can be a serious problem for those who are immunosuppressed, as well as for fetuses. Even in healthy people, the immune system may not clear the organism, resulting in a latent infection that can reactivate when immunity declines.
-Why is toxoplasmosis is not treated in otherwise healthy people?

• A) Healthy people do not get toxoplasmosis.
• B) There are no medications available for treatment.
• C) T. gondii is extremely resistant to medications.
• D) The disease is brought under control by their immune system.
• E) The available medications are very toxic to most people.

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Definitions:

Sensorimotor Intelligence

Piaget’s term for the way infants think—by using their senses and motor skills—during the first period of cognitive development.

Circular Reactions

Repetitive actions typical in infant development, which serve to build cognitive and motor skills.

Muscle Strength

The ability of a muscle or group of muscles to exert force against resistance.

Toddlers

Young children, typically between the ages of one and three years, who are in the early stages of walking and developing language skills.