Microbiome Flashcards
1
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Koch’s postulates
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- Microorganisms must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease but must not be found in healthy organisms
- Microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture
- Cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced to a healthy organism
- Microorganism must be re-isolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent
2
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Microbiome
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Microbial genome in ecosystem
3
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Genome
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Complete set of DNA of an organism
4
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Microbiota
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Ecological communities of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms
5
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Metagenome
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Recovery and sequencing of genetic material extracted from environmental samples
6
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Mycobiome
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Fungal community in and on an organism
7
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Richness
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How many species in a community
8
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Evenness
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How balanced a community is
9
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Diversity
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Product of richness and evenness
10
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Holobiont
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Assemblage of host and species living in or around it
11
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Psychiobiotic
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Ingesting bacteria has positive effect on mental health of host
12
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Lungs, asthma and microbiome
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- C-section increases asthma risk
- Reduced risk of asthma with high-fibre diet
- Steroids affected by lung microbiome
13
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C.diff
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- Cause of pseudomembranous colitis
- Confined to health-care exposure
- High rates of reoccurence
