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INTRO TO CLINICAL MICROBIO Flashcards

LESSON 1

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Study of living organisms that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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Microbiology

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Deals with the medically important microorganisms and its role in human disease.

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Medical microbiology

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Focuses on the laboratory identification of medically important microorganism.

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Diagnostic bacteriology

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A unicellular microbe with no true nucleus

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Prokaryotes

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5
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A multi-celled microbes that has a complete set of oganelles

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Eukaryotes

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6
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Microbes that are completely dependent on its affected cell

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Viruses

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7
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Microbe that has both DNA and RNA

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Bacteria

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8
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A process that is responsible for bacterial multiplication

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Binary fission

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9
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Single-celled fungi

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Yeast

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10
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Multi-celled fungie

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Molds

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11
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Fungi that is existing in both forms

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Dimorphic fungi

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12
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Disease causing microorganism

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Pathogens

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It is a type of pathogen that causes disease in a healthy host

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True pathogen

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14
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It is a type of pathogen that causes disease in an immunocompromised host (low immunity)

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Opportunistic pathogen

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Refers to the degree of pathogenicity or the power by which a pathogen can cause severe disease

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Virulence

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Refers to the entry, invasion, and multiplication of pathogens in or on the host’s body system.

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Infection

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17
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Infection from external environment

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Exogenous infection

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17
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Infection from colonizing flora

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Endogenous infection

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18
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Rapid/sudden onset of signs and symptoms

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Acute infection

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Gradual onset of signs and symptoms

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Chronic Infection

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20
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Infection acquired during hospitalization

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Nosocomial infection

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21
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Animal acquired infection

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Zoonotic infection or zoonosis

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No obvious appearance of signs and symptoms

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Subclinical/Asymptomatic/Nonapparent

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Presence of overt signs and symptoms

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Clinical/Symptomatic/Apparent

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An altered health state in an infected host

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Disease

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An illness caused by a pathogen which invades body tissues

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Infections disease

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An infectious disease that can spread from person to person

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Communicable disease

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Refers to a subjective evidence of a disease/Internal evidence

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Symptoms

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Refers to a readily observable evidence of a disease/External evidence

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Signs

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Bacteria that resides inside the human body that usually do not harm the host.

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Normal flora/Indigenous flora/Resident flora/Normal Microbiota

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Refers to the establishment of a substantial number of microorganisms without tissue penetration. Only in the skin or mucosa

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Colonization

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First recorded epidemic

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Pestilence or plague

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1500 BC

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Ebers papyrus

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1122 BC

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Smallpox in China

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First appearance in Europe

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Syphilis (1943)

34
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First person to see live bacteria

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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It is the name that Leeuwenhoek created for the small living creatures he observed

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Animalcules

36
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He debunked the theory of spontaneous generation

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Louis Pasteur

37
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He introduced the terms “aerobes” and “anaerobes”

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Louis Pasteur

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Microbial killing method

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Pasteurization

39
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Discovered that B. anthracis produces spores.

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Robert Koch

40
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He discovered M. tuberculosis and Vibrio cholerae

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Robert Koch

41
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He discovered the existence of heat-stable forms bacteria

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John Tyndall

42
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He establishes “STERILE”

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Ferdinand Cohn

43
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He discovered that the mothers who gave birth at home experienced fewer complications

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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

44
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Repeated heating and rest

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Tyndallization

45
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These are the stains used for histological specimen

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Carmine and hematoxylin

46
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Father of hand hygiene

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Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

47
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First to introduce aseptic techniques for wound infections

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Joseph Lister

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Refers to an organism’s genetic makeup

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Genotypic

49
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Whitakker’s tree

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Robert Whitakker

50
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Basic rules for classificatons

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Carl Von Linne (Linnaeus)

51
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Devised a three domain system

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Carl R. Woese

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