Lecture 19 Flashcards
Single Microbe
Causes a particular disease
Vibrio Cholera
Causes cholera
Influenza
Causes the flu
Disease
Many different microbial causes
Conjuctivitis
Caused by many bacteria and virus
Meningitis
caused by many different bacteria and viruses
Viral Meningitis
Causes:
- Enterovirus (most common)
- Herpes
- Influenza
- Rubella
- Coxsackie
- EBV
- Adenorvirus
Viral Meningitis
Most common infection of the CNS in under 1 year olds
Symbiosis
Association of two or more different species of organisms.
Organisms living together
Symbiosis
In symbiosis one member of the pair benefits from the relationship. The other may:
Injured
Unaffected
or may benifit
a microbe is
Symbiont
Larger Organism
Host
Ectosymbiont
Organism located on the surface of another organism. (example is the skin)
Endosymbiont
Organism located WITHIN another organism. (example bacteria in gut)
Consortium
Hosts have more than one associated symbiont
Mutualism
Some reciprocal benefit to both partners.
There is obligation.
Partners usually cannot live separately.
Codependent.
Example of mutualism
Aphids and Buchnera aphidicola. The insects consume sap and microbe inside insect provides vitamins and amino acids
Example of mutualism
Termites and protozoan symbiont. Termites eat the wood and protozoan digests the cellulose and provides nutrients for termite.
Protozoan-Termite Relationship
Bacteria in termite gut that aid in the protozoan symbiont.
Protozoan relies on bacterial symbionts.
Bacteria TG1 and spirochetes