Microbes harming humans lec.1

Question 1

What is the name for microbe that cause disease?

Answer 1

Pathogens

Question 2

______are among the most
common causes of death worldwide.

Answer 2

infectious diseases

Question 3

Historical uses of microbes

Answer 3

– Bread production
– Alcohol production
– Cheese production
– Treatment of wounds and lesions
– Mining precious metals
– Cleaning up human-created contamination

Question 4

How many microbes can cause disease? How many infections occur across the world?

Answer 4

2,000 different microbes
-10 billion infections occur across the world every year

Question 5

True or false, infectious diseases are among the most common causes of death worldwide

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Emerging and re-emerging diseases:

Answer 6

– AIDS
– Hepatitis C
– West Nile Virus
– Tuberculosis

Question 7

Associations between noninfectious disease and microbes: Gastric ulcers caused by

Answer 7

Helicobacter pylori

Question 8

Associations between noninfectious disease and microbes:– Cancer-associated with

Answer 8

bacteria and vruses

Question 9

Associations between noninfectious disease and microbes:– Diabetes associated with the

Answer 9

Coxsackie virus

Question 10

Increasing number of patients with weakened defenses:

Answer 10

-subject to infections by common microbes that are not pathogenic to healthy people

Question 11

Microbes that are harming humans: Increase in microbes are becoming

Answer 11

resistant to drugs