Exam 1 Flashcards
very small organisms that many are too small to see without a microscope
Microorgansims or Microbes
scientific study of microscopic organisms + viruses
Microbiology
Robert Hooke
a built microscope that magnifies 25x
called what he saw “cells”
looked at plants and cork
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
first to view microbes
a built microscope that magnifies 200-300x
withheld information for his entire lifetime
Louis Pasteur
invented pasteurization to kill off microorganisms
Declared that spontaneous generation is false
invented vaccines to treat diseases; rabies
Robert Koch
Discovered was bacteria causes what diseases. discovered anthrax, cholera, TB
microbes that live in and on your body (3 lbs)
Normal flora (aka microbiota, microbiome)
____ x more flora than human cells
10
Normal flora are usually not…
Pathogenic
What are the 6 major groups of microorganisms?
-viruses
-fungi
-bacteria
-protozoa
-helminths
used to add color to microbes for better observation
stains and dyes
an environment that provides nutrients like water, salts, glucose, nitrogen, and amino acids
A growth media
How many different species of normal flora is there?
500-1000
classification, description, identification, and naming of living organisms.
Taxonomy
What percentage of oxygen do microbes produce?
50%
What doe plants need in soil to obtain nitrogen?
Microbes
Francesco Redi
conducted an experiment that falsifies spontaneous generation with meat and maggots
Life arising from non-living matter
Spontaneous Generation
Describe Pasteurs SG experiment
Used swan-necked flask to boil broth and let sit for 18 mths > no microbes
After tilting the flask > microbes began to appear
Conclusion: life comes from life
Spontaneous Generation is false
the science of where + when disease occurs
Epidemiology
Ignaz Semmelwies
Came up with handwashing after recording data from lying in hospitals in Vienna.
2 sides of hospital had different death rates due to autopsies
Fevers/deaths reduce by 2/3
John Snow
Discovered the source of an outbreak of diarrhea in a certain hospital to be a water source in town using a map and pins
Prevention of infectious disease
Developed in the 14th century
Vaccination
Edward Jenner
Discovered that he can immunize people from smallpox by injecting them with the cowpox virus
Published pamphlet on how to vaccinate
Who created Antisepsis?
Joseph Lister (Amputative Surgeon)
What did Lister do?
1/2 pts die due to infection. Read Semmelweises paper and Pasteurs germ theory paper. Started Antisepsis process by using PHENOL
Robert Kochs Postulates
Same microbe has to be found in every case
1. isolate microbe in culture
2. onnoculte healthy host with pure culture, cause disease
3. re-isolate microbe and see if its identical to original
What did Kochs lab invent?
solid/ food media
stains for viewing microbes + photographing them
aseptic techniques
Created magic bullet that would kill microbes and not tissue
SALVARSON, compound 606
First to view syphilis
Paul Ehrlich
Questions if microbes cause disease by examining yeast and bacteria in wine. Solution was to heat grape juice, then add yeast.
5 years and published paper stating that microbes cause disease
Germ Theory of Disease
Pasteur
Set standard for hygiene in nursing care, proved with statistics that it works
Florence Nightingale
3 reasons why slides are heat fixed?
> Dries the slide
Kills bacteria
Attaches bacteria to slide (or use FORMALIN)
What is the overall charge of bacteria?
-
What is the charge of dyes to stain bacteria?
+
What can you determine abt becateria using a SIMPLE STAIN?
1 (+) stain
size, shape, arrangement
What can you determine abt becateria using a DIFFERENTIAL STAIN?
2 (+) stains, size, shape, arrangement, cell envelope, produce endospores or have a waxy cell wall
Steps to GRAM STAIN
- Add CRYSTAL VIOLET rinse with DIH2O, bacteria is purple
- Add IODINE (1 min), rinse, makes CV 1 molecule
- Add DECOLORIZER (acetone-alcohol) (2-5 sec), rinse
>Gram + CV is trapped in thick cell wall,
>Gram - are colorless bc cell wall is too thin - Puddle + SAFRONIN, rinse
>Gram + stays purple
>Gram - turns pink
Stains used in GRAM STAIN
Crystal Violet and Safronin
Who created the gram stain and what did he study in Berlin?
Hans Christian Gram
What was causing Pnemonia
What do you use ACID FAST stain for?
Mycobacterium (TB, leprosy)
Nocardia (skin+lung infections)
To see if cell was contains MYCOLIC ACID
Steps in ACID FAST stain:
- Begin on slide warm. Add paper, puddle (+) CARBOL FUSCHIN (2 min)
>Turns pink
2.Take off the paper and rinse with DIH2O - Decolorize with acid-alcohol (2-5 sec)
>ACID FAST bacteria have MYCOLIC ACID–stays PINK
4.Puddle (+) METHYLENE BLUE on smear (1 min)
>NON-acid fast stain turns the rest BLUE
Three differential stains
Gram stain
Acid fast
Endospore stain
What is ENDOSPORE STAIN used for?
Bacillus + Clostridium and produces spores
handy, dormant, resistant structure
Endospores
ENDOSPORE STAIN procedure:
- Begin on slide warmer with paper and MALACHITE GREEN (5min)
- Move slide from heat (5 min)
- Remove paper, rinse with DIH2O
100,000 x total magnification
Scans electrons SURFACES
SEM: scanning electron microscope
20,000,000 x total magnification
slices to views organelles, views viruses
TEM+ transmission electron microscope
What are the 2 major morphologies of bacteria?
Cocci and Bacillia
2+ round bacteria produce separately in this
Single Cocci Arrangment
2 round bacteria remain attached
Diplococci Arrangment
Long chains of round bacteria remain attached in 1 plane
Streptococci
BF is 2 planes, 4 round bacteria remain attached
Tetrads Cocci Arrangment