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1
Q

What are microorganisms?

A

Things too small for the eye to see

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2
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Types of M/O’s?

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Algae, Helmiths(animals), bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, fungi

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3
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Virome

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Estimated 380 trillion viruses on/in us (most beneficial)

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4
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DALY

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Years of premature death + years of disbaility (some diseases cause not as many deaths but more DALYS)

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5
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Notifiable disease

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Required to report disease for prevention control

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6
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Zoonotic

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From animals

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7
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Romans-Varro

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invisible animals-into mouth/nose-disease

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8
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Hooke

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Cork cells/molds (first to define cells)

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9
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Hoek

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“Animalcules”

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10
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Cell theory

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Living things are made of cells/spontaneous generation (life from non-living things)

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11
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Redi

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Meat/Maggots

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12
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Needham/Spellazani

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Microbes in broth

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13
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Florence Nightingale

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Sanitation/GERM THEORY DISEASE (clean air/water/equipment)

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14
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Pasteur

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swan-neck flask

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15
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Miasma theory of disease

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“Poisonous” vapor from of decomposing materials causes disease

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16
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Fracastoro

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“Seminaria” (seeds of disease)

17
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Modes of transmission

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Direct contact, Inanimate objects, air

18
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Snow

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Cholera- water pumps traced and closed, no new cases

19
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Cholera

A

Etiologic agent

20
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Reservoir

A

Where it is found

21
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Enterotoxin

A

digestive issues (intestinal cells excrete fluids)

22
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Systemic

A

Means wide spread infection

23
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Germ theory disease

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Nightingale- Koch brought it back

24
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Koch

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Anthrax in cattle

25
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Vaccine (define)

A

vacca- cow (cow pocks)

26
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Angelina Hesse

A

Suggested using Agar from red algae to treat cow pocks (Aseptic technique)

27
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Semmelweis

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Puerperal (childbirth) fever (wash hands in between patients)

28
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Lister

A

Sanitize surgical sites b4 surgery

29
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Montagu

A

“Variolation”- inoculate into skin a little

30
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Jenner

A

cow pox/small pox only vaccine to eradicate

31
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Pasteur

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Rabies

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