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Microorganisms Flashcards

Nutritional categories, disease causing microorganisms, basic life requirements

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BS1040

What do dermatophyte infections grow on?

A

Keratin

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What organism causes thrush?

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Candida Albicans

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What are halophiles adapted to?

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Salty conditions

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What is the difference between the endogenous and exogenous route?

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Endogenous - Already in the body and infects when there is a change in the internal environment
Exogenous - Contracted externally from someone/something

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What organism causes pneumonia and where does it grow?

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Pneumocystis carinii, intracellularly

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What does a catalase-positive test determine about an organism?

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It needs oxygen to live

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What parasite causes malaria and what is the common vector for it?

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Plasmodium parasite, female mosquito is the vector

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What organism can T.gonii go through its sexual stage in?

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Cats

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What are two features of anoxygenic photo-tropism?

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Uses bacteriochlorophyll and has one reaction centre

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What are the five anoxygenic prokaryotes?

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Heliobacteria
Purple sulphur
Purple non-sulphur
Green sulphur
Green non-sulphur
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What does PAME stand for and what microorganism can cause it?

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Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria

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What do antifungal drugs typically target?

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Cell wall integrity
Cell wall biosynthesis
RNA synthesis

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What do fungi have in their cell walls?

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Chitin

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‘An organism that can respire aerobically in the presence of oxygen but is capable of switching to fermentation or anaerobic respiration if oxygen is absent.’ What is this defining?

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Facultative anaerobe

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What is the difference between a chemoheterotroph and a chemoautotroph?

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Chemoheterotrophs use chemical energy and existing sources of carbon
Chemoautotrophs use chemical energy and light energy

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What does the oxidase test do?

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Detects the presence of cytochromes

17
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BS1040

What does Cryptococcous Neoformans cause?

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Chronic meningitis

18
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BS1040

True or False: Methanogens are the only organisms that can produce methane as a metabolic by-product.

A

True

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