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Chapter 5- Micro Flashcards

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Infectious Disease

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AIDS, disease that can be spread easily.

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Degenerative Disease

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Break down ( osteoporosis)

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Nutritional Disorder

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Vitamin C(stermy ), vitamin D (rickets

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Metabolic disorders-

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Diabetes ( disruption of cellular metabolism.)

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Immune disorders-

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Allergies, Rheumatoid arthritis, MS

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Neoplasms

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New growth (cancer)

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Causes of Disease

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Age, heredity, gender, living condition and lifestyle, physical and chemical damage, pre-existing illness, emotional disturbance.

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Etiology

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Study of cause of disease

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Epidimology

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Study of diseases statistics

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Incidence-

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Number of new cases in a given region at a certain time divided by the number of total population

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Prevalence

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The overall frequency of a disease in a given group.

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Pathogens-

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any disease causing a microorganism

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Infection-

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invasion of the body by microorganisms which results in an illness.

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Microbiome (normal flora)

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Contributes to health; combats infections, it moves and prevents the growth of harmful organism.

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Endospores

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Resistant from of bacteria

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Flagella

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Thread like appendage used to swim quickly

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Pili

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Short flagella like that helps bacteria glide along a solid surface

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Cocci

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Round/ ball shape

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Dipplococci

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A pair of cocci

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Streptococci

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Chain like cocci

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Staphylococci

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Cluster cocci

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Bacilli

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Straight flender rod

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Viruses

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Infectious agents that can multiply within living cells.
Contains protein and nucleic acid
Obligated intracellular parasites

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Prions

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Infectious particles thats only made out of protein. (Madcow)

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Fungi

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Causes a myotic infection.
Yeast: Thrush
Molds: fuzzy multi-cellular

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Protozoa

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Single cell animal.

Animal like.

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Amebas

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Travel by extending itself

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Ciliates

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Uses cilia that waves to move the organism.

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Flagellates

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Uses flagella to move.

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Apicomplexans

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They don’t move.

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Parasitic worms

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Helminths. Species of worms and parasites with human hosts.

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Ascaris

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Most common and can be diagnose with stool examination

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Pinworms

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Common in children and it lands in the large intestine.

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Hookworms

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Live in the small intestine and it causes sever blood dificiency.

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Filariae

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Transmitted by lice or mosquitos and can clog the lympathic system.

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Tapeworms

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Ribbon like worms grow in the intestinal tract and typically spread by undercooked meat.

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Flukes

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Leaf shape worm that invaded various parts of the body

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Parasitic anthropods

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Nice, spiders, insects.

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Vectors

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Feed on blood (animal that transmits a disease)

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Infestations

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Headlice, scabies.

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Contributing factors for infectious disease

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Increased population, disruption of habitats, increased travel, medical treatment and increased survival.

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Microbes and public health

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Sewage and garbage disposal, water purification, prevention of food contamination, milk pasteurization.

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Antibiotics

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Substance that are produced by living cells that have the power to kill the growth of bacteria, antivirals.

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Antimicrobial agents

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Antibiotics, disadvantages, pathogenic resistance, destruction of normal flora, nosocomial infection.

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Antivirals

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Difficult to develop and there’s always research being done.

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Collection of specimens

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Bacteria isolations and test
Staining- gram positive- blueish purple: negative reddish
Molecular methods of microbe identification
Protein analysis
Polymerase chain reaction

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Opportunistic

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Term for an infection that takes hold in a weakened host.

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Portal of entry

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The avenue by which a microorganism invaded the body.

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