Intro to Bacte

Question 1

Provided the initial evidence that some of themicrobes in dust and air have very high heat resistance and that particularly vigorous treatment is required to destroy them

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John Tyndall

Question 2

Discovered Streptomycin

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Selman Waksman

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Ability of a microbe to produce disease in an individual

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Pathogenicity

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The exhibition of a characteristic inherent resistance to specific antibiotics, heavy metals, or toxins.

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Resistance profiles

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Are organisms recognized to cause disease in healthy immuno-competent individuals as high percentage all the time

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True pathogens

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The first to use a lens to observe the smallest unit of
tissues he called “cells

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Robert Hooke

Question 7

The ability of an organism to utilize various carbon and nitrogen sources as nutritional substrates
when grown under specific environmental conditions.

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Nutritional requirements

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The microbial growth patterns on artificial media as observed when inspected with the unaided eye.
Examples include the size, texture, and pigmentation of bacterial colonies.

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Macroscopic morphology

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method for organizing microorganisms
into groups or taxa based on similar morphologic, physiologic, and genetic traits.

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Classification

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Microorganisms that are commonly found on or in body sites of healthy persons

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Indigenous Microbial Biota

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The profiles of microorganisms established by various serologic and immunologic methods to
determine relatedness among various microbial groups.

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Antigenic properties

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Harbors the organism but do not present
symptoms to the disease cause by these
organisms; can only transmit

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Carriers

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An infection that occurs as the result of medical
treatment or procedures

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Iatrogenic Infection

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Developed vaccines to prevent chicken cholera, anthrax,rabies, and swine erysipelas

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Louis Pasteur

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most basic of the taxonomic groups and can be defined as a collection of bacterial strains that share common physiologic and genetic features and differ notably from other microbial species.

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Species

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Heating liquids to 63 – 65°C for 30 minutes or 73 – 75°C for 15 seconds

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Pasteurization

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Disproved theory of spontaneous generation/
Abiogenesis

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Louis Pasteur

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Growth of microbiota in or on a body site without the production of damage or notable symptoms

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Colonization

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The ability of an organism to grow at various temperatures, in the presence of oxygen and other gases, at various pH levels, or in the presence of other ions and salts, such as NaCl.

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Environmental
requirements

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based on features beyond the genetic level, including both readily observable characteristics and features that may require extensive analytic
procedures to be detected.

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Phenotypic characteristics

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Bacillus anthrasis; True pathogen or Opportunist?

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True pathogen

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relative ability of a microorganism to cause
disease or the degree of pathogenicity

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Virulence

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Relationship of Proteus mirabilis to the gastrointestinal tract where This species is benefiting from living in the tract buti ts not causing harm to human body

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Commensalism

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Refers to the various mechanism that the organism use to persist in the host and cause disease

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Virulence Factors

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Vaccination (smallpox vaccine)

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Edward Jenner

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The first person to observe and accurately describe microorganisms (bacteria & protozoa) called “animalcules” (little animals)

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Developments of chemotherapy

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Paul Ehrlich

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“Father of Hand Hygiene”; Hand washing; infection control

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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

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Objects or inanimate objects that are contaminated with the infectious agents and may
transmit the disease as a result of contact

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Fomites

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Molecular constituents of the cell that are typical of a particular taxon, or organism group, as established by various analytic methods. Some examples include cell wall components, components of the cell membrane, and enzymatic content of the microbial cell.

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Subcellular properties

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micribiota that Colonizes for a long time

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Resident microbiota

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The size, shape, intracellular inclusions, cellular appendages, and arrangement of cells when
observed with the aid of microscopic magnification

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Microscopic morphology

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animal diseases that can infect humans and are
transmitted through animal contact

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Zoonoses

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The ability of an organism to reproducibly stain a particular color with the application of specific dyes and reagents.

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Staining characteristics

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Relationship of Lactobacilli found in the female genitourinary tract

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Symbiosis

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First proposed the use of agar in culture media

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Fanne Eilshemius Hesse

Question 38

relate to an organism’s genetic makeup, including
the nature of the organism’s genes and
constituent nucleic acids

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Genotypic characteristics

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Can only cause disease when the immune system is compromised

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Opportunists

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environmental isolates that live in extreme environments such as high salt concentrations,jet fuel, or extreme temperatures.

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Archaea

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Virulence factor of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in attaching to th egenital tract of ahuman

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Adhesion pili