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History Of Microbiology Flashcards

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Belief that some forms of life arise spontaneously from non-living matter

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Spontaneous generation

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Who suggested that diseases were caused by invisible creatures?

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Girolamo Fracasto

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The idea that human disease is caused by infection with microorganisms

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Germ theory of disease

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Important contributors to the germ theory were

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Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur

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Results of diseases

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Genetics
Allergic reactions/autoimmune response
Biochemical/physiological deficiencies

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Cell theory

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Robert Hooke

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First to observe and describe microorganisms correctly

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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

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Showed that disease was a result infection microorganisms

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Germ theory of disease

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Produced vaccines using attenuated strains of disease causing organisms

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Louis Pasteur

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Important work with fermentation and putrefaction

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Louis Pasteur

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French scientist

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Louis Pasteur

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German physician

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Robert Koch

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Formulated a series proofs to verify that a disease is directly caused by a specific microorganisms

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Robert Koch

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Started the field of etiology

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Robert Koch

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Using agar as a gelling agent

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Robert Koch

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Creation of nutrient broth and nutrient agar

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Robert Koch

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Creation of the perti dish

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Robert Koch

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British physician

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Edward Jenner

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Started the field of immunology

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Edward Jenner

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Provided protection from disease by using a less virulent or attenuated version of a disease causing microorganisms

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Edward Jenner

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Stan that differentiates bacteria into two groups based on the composition of their cell wall

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The gram stain

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Hungarian physician

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Dr.Ignaz Semmelweis

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Instituted the policy of hand washing and observed a marked reduction in the number of deaths associated with this disease

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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American physician

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Same observation as dr. Semmelweis

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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British surgeon

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Joseph lister

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Improved surgical techniques to prevent wound infection

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Joseph lister

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Introduced antiseptic surgery

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Joseph lister

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British nurse

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Florence nightingale

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Introduced cleanliness

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Florence nightingale

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Described the first antibiotic penicillin

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Alexander Fleming

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Substances produced by both bacteria and fungi to kill other microorganisms

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Antibiotics

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Created the binomial system

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Carl Von line

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Swedish botanist

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Carl Von line

34
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Staphylococcus

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Grape like clusters

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