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Introduction to Microbiology Flashcards

1
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Study of organisms and agents too small to be seen by the naked eye

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Microbiology

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2
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Which is smaller, bacteria or viruses?

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Virus

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What is the size of a typical bacterium?

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2 microns

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What is the typical size of virus? 

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0.02-0.4 microns

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Suggested that diseases were caused by “invisible living creatures”

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Lucretius and Girolamo Fracastoro

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Made the earliest observations on bees and weevils using a microscope supplied by Galileo

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Francesco Stelluti

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The first book devoted to microscopic observations

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Micrographia (1665)

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Reported to the world that life’s smallest structural units were “little boxes” or “cells”

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Robert Hooke

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Theory that states that all living things are composed of cells

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Cell Theory

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Considered as the “first true microbiologist”

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Father of Bacteriology, Microbiology, and Protozoology

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Tiny living and moving cells that Leeuwenhoek saw through his simple, single-lens microscope

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Animalcules

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Thought that organic matter contained a vital force that could confer life on non-living matter

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Spontaneous generation (Abiogenesis)

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Living cells can rise ONLY from pre-existing living cells

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Biogenesis Theory

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Mentioned that simple invertebrates could arise from Spontaneous Generation

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Aristotle

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Demonstrate that maggots did not arise spontaneously from decaying meat

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Francesco Redi

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17
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The proponent of spontaneous generation

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John Needham

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18
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Improved Needham’s experiment

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Lazzaro Spallanzani

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19
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Showed the importance of oxygen to life

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Anton Laurent Lavoisier

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Challenged the case of spontaneous generation with the concept of Biogenesis: living cells can arise only from pre-existing living cells

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Rudolf Virchow

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Observed that no growth occurred in a flask that contained a nutrient solution after allowing the air to pass through a heated tube

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Theodor Schwann

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Notice that no growth occurred after allowing the air to pass through sterile cotton wool placed on a heat-sterilized medium flask.

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Heinrich Schroder and Theodore von Dusch

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23
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Father of modern microbiology

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Louis Pasteur

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Techniques that prevent contamination by unwanted microorganisms, which are now the standard practice in laboratory and many medical procedures

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Aseptic Techniques

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Showed that dust carry germs that could contaminate a sterile broth

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John Tyndall

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26
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Form of sterilization that uses moist heat for three consecutive days

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Tyndallization

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27
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What is the use of Tyndallization?

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To eradicate vegetative cells and endospores

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Discovered that there are bacteria that could withstand a series of heating and boiling

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Ferdinand Cohn

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29
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Heat resistant structure of bacteria

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Endospores

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30
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Aerobic heat resistant bacteria

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Bacillus

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31
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Anaerobic heat resistant bacteria

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Clostridium

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32
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Who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation?

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Pasteur

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33
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When was the rabies vaccine developed?

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1885

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34
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When was the anthrax vaccine developed?

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1881

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35
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Causative agent of rabies

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Rhabdovirus

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36
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Causative agent of anthrax

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Bacillus anthracis

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37
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Who developed rabies and anthrax vaccine?

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Pasteur

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38
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What to use when hands are visibly contaminated?

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Antibacterial soap and water

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39
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What to use when hands are not visibly contaminated?

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Alcohol

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40
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Culture of avirulent microorganism for preventive inoculation

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Vaccine

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41
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Components of anti-toxin

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Antibodies

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42
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Components of vaccine

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Antigen / weakened, attenuated, and dead microorganisms

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43
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Enrichment media for N. gonorrhea

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Thayer Martin Agar

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44
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Enrichment media for gram + bacteria

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Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol Agar

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45
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Causative agent of Syphilis

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Treponema pallidum

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46
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What are the spirochetes

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Borrelia, Leptospira, Treponema (BLT)

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47
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Acellular microorganism with nucleic acid but no protein coat

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Acellular microorganism with protein coat but no nucleic acid

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Acellular microorganisms with nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) and protein coat

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Prokaryotic microorganisms

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Archaea, Bacteria, and Cyanobacteria

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Eukaryotic microorganisms

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Fungi, Algae, and Protozoa

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Largest bacteria

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Bacillus anthracis

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Smallest bacteria

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

54
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Only bacteria without cell wall

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Shape of Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Pleiomorphic (vary in shape)

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Smallest pathogenic bacilli

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Haemophilus ducreyi

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Disease caused by Haemophilus ducreyi

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Manifestation of syphilis

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Rod shaped organisms

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Spherical / round organisms

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Bacilli with tapered pointed ends

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Vary in shape

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Pleiomorphic

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Spiral shaped organisms

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Spirochetes

64
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Unique appearance of N. gonorrheae

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Pairs / diplococci

65
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Shape of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Oral, bullet, lancet shaped

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Bacteria in chain like arrangement

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Streptococcus

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Bacteria in grape-like clusters

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Staphylococcus

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Group of four / tetrads

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Peptococcus

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Packets of eight / cuboidal

70
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Palisades / Chinese character appearance

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Stated that yeast cells are responsible for the conversion of sugars to alcohol

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Theodor Schwann

72
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Found that microorganisms called yeasts convert the sugars to alcohol in the absence of air: FERMENTATION

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Louis Pasteur

73
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Process of heating the beer and wine just enough to kill most of the bacteria that caused the spoilage

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PASTEURIZATION

74
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He stated that souring and spoilage are caused by different microorganisms called bacteria

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Louis Pasteur

75
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He proved that a fungus caused another silkworm disease

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Agostino Bassi

76
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He demonstrated that routine handwashing could prevent the spread of disease

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Ignaz Semmelweis

77
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Father of Antiseptic Surgery

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Joseph Lister

78
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Solution used by Joseph Lister for treating surgical wounds

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Phenol solution

79
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Pioneered in promoting among surgeon’s handwashing before and after an operation, the wearing of gloves, sterilization of surgical instruments

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Joseph Lister

80
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First to show irrefutable proof that bacteria indeed cause disease

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Robert Koch

81
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Discovered Bacillus anthracis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Robert Koch

82
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First to cultivate bacteria on boiled potatoes, gelatin, meat extracts, and protein

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Robert Koch

83
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Suggested the use of agar, a solidifying agent, in the preparation of the culture media

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Fanny Hesse

84
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Developed petri dish

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Julius Richard Petri

85
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Developed the enrichment-culture technique and the use of selective media

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Martins Beijerink and Sergei Winogradsky

86
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Introduced the concept of vaccination

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Edward Jenner

87
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WHO declared smallpox as officially eradicated in:

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He developed the vaccine for smallpox

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Edward Jenner

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Prove that when attenuated strains are introduced into a healthy host, the latter remains protected and healthy against the virulent agent

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Louis Pasteur and Pierre Paul Emile Roux

90
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Created a porcelain bacterial filter and developed the anthrax vaccine together with Pasteur

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Charles Chamberland

91
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He prepared antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus

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Emil von Behring

92
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Emil von Behring

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Antitoxins for diphtheria

93
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First to describe the immune system cells and the process of phagocytosis

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Elie Metchnikoff

94
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Treatment of disease by using chemical substances

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Chemotherapy

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Chemicals produced naturally by bacteria and fungi to act against other microorganisms

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Antibiotics

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Chemotherapeutic agents prepared from chemicals in the laboratory

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Synthetic drugs

97
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Chemotherapeutic agent developed by Paul Ehrlich

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Salvarsan (Arsphenamine)

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Discovered streptomycin and neomycin antibiotics

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Selman Waksman

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Father of Antibiotics

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Selman Waksman

100
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Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered:

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Penicillin

101
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Made the purification process for Penicillin and clinical trials to humans

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Howard Florey and Ernst Chain

102
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First to propose the correct biochemical structure of Penicillin

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Edward Abraham

103
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Magnification of Leeuwenhoek’s simple, single-lens microscope

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50x to 300x

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The most common method used both for the detection of microorganisms directly in clinical specimens and for the characterization of organisms grown in culture.

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Microscopy

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Microscope used for observing non viable, stained preparations

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Brightfield Microscope

106
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Microscope used to readily observe living specimens

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Darkfield Microscope

107
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Microscope that allows us to observe microorganisms in an unstained state

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Phase Contrast Microscope

108
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Microscope used to visualize specimens that are chemically tagged with a fluorescent dye

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Fluorescent Microscope

109
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This microscope is used primarily to detect antigen–antibody reactions

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Fluorescent Microscope

110
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Microscope that makes internal cellular structure visible

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Transmission Electron Microscope

111
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Microscope used for visualizing surface characteristics rather than intracellular structures

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Scanning Electron Microscope

112
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Enlargement of the specimen

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Magnification

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Magnification of scanner objective lens

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Magnification of low power objective lens

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Magnification of high power objective lens

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Magnification of oil immersion objective lens

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It is how far apart two adjacent objects must be before a given lens shows them as discrete entities

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Resolving power or resolution

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