Micro final Flashcards
what infectious disease is caused by Yersinia pestis
The plague
What infrectious disease is caused by Coccidioides immitis
Valley fever
What infectious disease is caused by Naegleria fowleri
primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)
what infectious disease is caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae?
Diptheria
What infectious disease is caused by Mycoplasma genitalium
Mgen
A quality for an antimicrobial drug that means the drug selectively kills or inhibits the growth of microbial targets while causing minimal or no harm to the host
selective toxicity
what four antibiotics inhibit cell wall biosynthesis?
- Penicillin G
- Vancomycin
- Cephalosporin
- Bacitracin
What four antibiotics inhibit protein biosynthesis?
- streptomycin
- tetracycline
- chloramphenicol
- azithromycin
what is the one antibiotic that disrupts membranes?
Polymyxin B
What are the three antibiotics that inhibit nucleic acid synthesis?
- Rifampin
- Nitrofurantoin
- fluoroquinolones
What antibiotic disrupts metabolic pathways
sulfa drugs
what are the seven challenges any good pathogen must overcome to cause disease?
- find a reservoir between hosts
- use a mode of transmission to get to the new host
- Must adhere to the surface’s of the host’s tissues and colonize the new host
- Must invade the new host to get into the deeper tissues
- Must evade host’s immune responses to establish an infection
- Must actually cause a disease (multply and produce toxins)
- Exit the host and go to a new host or back to the reservoir
what is index case?
The first case
what is etiology?
the study of the cause of the disease
Common source epidemic
a single source for all individuals affected
