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Chapter 8 Key Terms Flashcards

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What is Aerobic?

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An Organism that requires oxygen to live.

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What is Anaerobic?

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Is a Organism that don’t require oxygen to live.

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Colonization

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Occurs when the pathogen microbes are present in the body without causing symptoms or a detectable immune response

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Pathogen

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Is an organism that causes disease in a host

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Host

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An infected person

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Subclinical infection

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No symptoms

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Chain of infection

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Infectious agent
Reservoir
Portal of exit
Mode of transportation
Portal of entry
Susceptible host

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Bacteria

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Are single called organisms

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Spherical

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Coccus

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Rod

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Bacillus

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Spiral

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Spirillum

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Gram positive

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Stain purple

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Gram negative

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Lose purple stain when exposed to alcohol but stain pink with second dye.

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Rickettsia vectors

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Infected fleas, ticks, mites and lice.

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Viruses

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Need a host to live and reproduce
Antibiotics are not effective. Antiviral meds help with symptoms.

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Fungi

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Yeast and molds

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Protozoa

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Are singles celled parasitic organisms. Protozoa feeds off of dead or decaying organic material.
Mode of transportation fecal oral contamination, ingestion of food or water contamination with cysts or spores, host to host contact or the bite of a mosquito or other insect that has previously bitten an infected person.

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Helminths

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Are wormlike parasitic like roundworms, flatworms, pinworms and flukes.

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Trichinosis

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Caused by roundworms is disease caused by eating raw or undercooked meat of pigs or wild animals that contain Trichinella larvae.

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Vector borne transmission

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Fleas, mice, mosquitoes, rats, or ticks

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Cilia

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Hair line structure lining the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract that protect the lungs.

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Gastric ph

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