Please Select the False Statement Regarding Plague and Its Transmission

question 33

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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Definitions:

T-Test

A statistical hypothesis test used to compare the mean values of a group under two different conditions.

Sampled Population

The subset of individuals or items selected from the entire population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Population Mean

The average value of all the members of a population.

P-Value

The probability of observing results at least as extreme as those in a data set, given that the null hypothesis is true.