History

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deals with the study of medically important microorganisms specifically their role in human disease which includes diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases

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Medical Microbiology

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focuses on the laboratory identification of medically important bacteria by phenotypical and genotypical characterization including antibiotic susceptibility testing

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Diagnostic Microbiology

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Syphillis cure

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Paul Elrich

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What is pasteurization?

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Heating liquids to 63 – 65’C for 30 minutes or 73 – 75’C for 15 seconds. Type of sterilization. Only kills pathogens

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Publication of the paper supporting

the germ theory of disease

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Louis Pasteur

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What is abiogenesis?

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Life can arise spontaneously

from non-living materials

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What is Germ Theory of Disease?

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Specific microbes cause specific infectious diseases

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Developed vaccines to prevent chicken cholera, anthrax and swine erysipelas

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered that B. anthracis produces spores, capable of resisting adverse conditions

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Robert Koch

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Developed methods of fixing, staining, and photographing bacteria, methods of cultivating bacteria on solid media

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Robert Koch

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Discovered M. Tuberculosis

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Robert Koch

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Discovered Vibrio Cholerae

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Robert Koch

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Discovered Penicillin

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Alexander Fleming

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Established the term “Sterile”

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Ferdinand Cohn

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Introduced aseptic techniques aimed at reducing microbes in a medical setting and preventing wound infections

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Joseph Lister

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Father of Hand Hygiene

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Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

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Smallpox Vaccination

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Edward Jenner

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Developed Acid-fast stain

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Paul Elrich

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Developed Gram Staining

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Hans Christian Gram

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Invented Petri Dish

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Richard J. Petri

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Discovered Virsuses

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Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovski

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Proof that mosquitos carry the agent of yellow fever

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Walter Reed

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Invented Polymerase Chain Reaction

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Kary Mulis

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Rabies Vaccine

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Louis Pasteur

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Neapolitan Disease

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Syphilis

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Fatal epidemic disease also called Black Death

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Pestilence and Plague

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Causative agent of Syphillis

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Treponema Pallidum

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Causative agent of Pestilence and Plague

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Yersinia Pestis

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Neapolitan Disease

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Syphilis

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laid down the basic rules for classification and established taxonomic categories, or taxa

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Carl von Linne

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based on structural similarities and differences in cellular organization, and the way these organisms obtained their nutrition

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5-Kingdom Classification or Whittaker’s Tree

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Devised a 3-domain system of classification

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Carl R. Woese

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It is based on cellular organization and function

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3-domain system classification

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Why archaea are placed in a separate domain frrom bacteria?

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Archaeal cell walls lack peptidoglycan.

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Why gram negative archaea is similar with gram negative bacteria

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Their outer membrane consists a layer of protein (bacteria have lipid)

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Why pharmaceutical companies have been more successful in developing effective microbial agents against bacterial pathogens than parasites, fungi, and virus?

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Parasites and fungi are eukaryotic and similar to their human hosts, and viruses use their host cells for replication

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Virus that infects and possibly destroy bacterial cells

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bacteriophage