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What are the 3 main methods of microbial control?

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Physical

Mechanical Removal

Chemical

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What are the 2 categories of physical microbial control?

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Heat

Radiation

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What are the 2 categories of Heat to control microbial infection?

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Dry Heat - Like oven

Moist Heat - Like Boiling of autoclave

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What types of microbial controls do you use on inanimate items (non-living)

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Sterilization

Disinfection

Sanitization

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What types of microbial controls do you use on living tissues?

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Antiseptics

Degerming

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What is sterilization?

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Completely eliminate all vegetative cells, endospores and viruses

Eliminates all microbial risk

Only used on inanimate items.

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What is Disinfection?

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Reduces or destroys microbial load using heat or chemicals.

(there can still be some bacterial life)

Only used on inanimate items

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What is Sanitization?

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Reduces microbial loads to a safe public health level using heat or chemicals

Only used on inanimate items

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What is Antisepsis?

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Reduces microbial load using antimicrobial chemicals on living tissues

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What is degerming?

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Reduces microbial load using scrubbing and mild chemicals on living tissues.

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You have injured your arm and your sibling tells you that you must sterilize your would. Why are they wrong?

A) Sterilization is a process that uses scrubbing and you could damage the wound

B) Sterilization is a process exclusively used on inanimate objects

C) Sterilization will only reduce the microbial load without killing the pathogen.

D) Sterilization absolutely requires heat to completely destroy the microbes.

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B) Sterilization is a process exclusively used on inanimate objects

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What are the 2 categories of radiation for the physical methods of microbial control?

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Nonionizing - UV

Ionizing - Xray

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Dry heat methods for microbial control include a dry oven and incineration (flame). What level of microbial control is achieved with either method?

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Sterilization

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Moist heat methods for microbial control include autoclave (steam & pressure) and boiling water or pasteurization. What level of control is achieved with autoclaves?

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Sterilization
but only if held at 121 degrees Celcius for 15 minutes or more.

15 minutes is how long it takes to kill spores

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Moist heat methods for microbial control include autoclave (steam & pressure) and boiling water or pasteurization. What level of control is achieved with boiling water of pasteurization?

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Disinfection

Reduces bacterial loads but only eliminates heat-sensitive pathogens.

Not sterile

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What is HTST Pasteurization of milk?

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High temp short time

milk is heated to 72 degrees celsius for 15 seconds then bottled and refrigerated.

Shorter shelf life

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What is UHT pasteurization for milk?

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Ultra High Temperature

Milk is heated to 138 degrees celsius or more for 2 or more seconds, then sealed in airtight containers for up to 90 days without refrigeration. (tetra pack milk)

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What other physical methods of microbial control can be used besides heat or pressure?

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Cold - Refrigeration or freezing

Dessication - Drying

Both methods just control growth. They do not reduce the population by killing.

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For a research project, you pasteurized your growth medium. Once the process is complete, you leave your flask on the bench to cool down. After a few days, you notice growth in your medium, what is the best explanation?

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The aim of pasteurization is to reduce the microbial population to a safe level; therefore you do not sanitize your growth medium.

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What is an example of a mechanical process to control microbial growth?

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Filtration.

Effectiveness depends on pore size

HEPA filters have a 0.3 micron pore size. (used to remove microbes from air)

Membrane filters have a 0.2 micron pore size or smaller. (Used in liquid solutions)

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What are the 2 categories of chemical microbial control?

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Gases

Liquids

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Gases used in chemical methods of microbial control can achieve what level of control?

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sterilization or disenfection

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What are the examples of liquid chemical controls used on living tissues?

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Chemotherapy (taken internally)
- Antibiotics
- antivirals
- Antiparasitic
- Antifungal

Antisepsis (Applied topically)

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What are the 3 main categories of antimicrobial agents?

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Static (stops growth)
Cidal (kills)
Lytic (Lyses)

examples
bacteriostatic/cidal/lytic -targets bacteria
fungistatic/cidal - targets fungi
viricistatic/dal - targets viruses
sporocidal - targets spores

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How do we determine the effects of antimicrobial agents?
Use plate counts and optical denisty With a static agent, the optical density and number of colony forming units will plateau once the agent is applied With a cidal or lytic agent, the optical density and the number of colony forming units will decrease once the agent is applied.
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How do we test the effectiveness of antiseptics and disinfectants?
Use the disc diffusion assay method A plate is inoculated with various antimicrobial discs. The zone of inhibition around each disc indicates how effective that antimicrobial is against the particular species being tested. The larger zone = more it kills can only tell you how much it kills
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How do we test the efficacy of germicides?
logarithmic scale - overtime how much is decreasing. The steeper the curve, the more effective it is.
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How many bacteria can a compound with 99.999% efficacy kill? A) 10 000 and above B) 100 000 and below C) 100 000 and above D) 1 million E) 1 billion
B) 100 000 and below *Count the number of 9's and then count the number of 0's* 5 nines = 5 zeros Something that kills 99.9% is not as effective as something that kills 99.99% 99.9% is up to 1000
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What is the difference between physical methods, chemical methods and filtration to control microbes?
Physical methods and chemical methods reduce populations and/or inhibit growth. Filtration removes microbes
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You work with a food-borne human pathogen that is psychrotolerant bacteria. What storage temperature would you use to make sure the food stays safe?
Below refrigeration temperature Psychrotolerants are mesophiles that can grow at refrigeration temperature Human pathogen must grow at body temperature
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What are the considerations when using a chemotherapy?
Toxicity towards the host - dosage and route of administration - Kill or inhibit pathogen without damaging the host - Easier for bacteria, harder for viruses and very hard for eukaryotic pathogen
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What is a broad-spectrum vs narrow-spectrum antibody?
Broad-spectrum - kills many different groups, indiscriminate - kills the good and bad bacteria Narrow-spectrum - kills specific groups of bacteria
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What is an antibiotic?
chemical substance that kills bacteria or prevents bacterial growth the familiar/current definition is an umbrella term for antibacterial compounds but classically: 1. antibacterial 2. produced naturally by microorganisms 3. a chemical not a protein
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What are the targets of antibiotics?
Cell wall Plasma membrane Ribosomes Metabolic pathways DNA synthesis RNA synthesis
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If we use an antibiotic to inhibit cell wall biosynthesis what are the targets?
Penicillin-binding proteins Peptidoglycan subunits Peptidoglycan subunit transport
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If we use an antibiotic to inhibit biosynthesis of proteins what are the targets?
30S ribosomal subunit 50S ribosomal subunit
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If we use an antibiotic to disrupt membranes what are the targets?
Lipopolysaccharide, inner and outer membranes
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If we use an antibiotic to inhibit nucleic acid synthesis what are the targets?
RNA DNA
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If we use an antibiotic for antimetabolites what are the targets?
Folic acid synthesis enzyme Mycolic acid synthesis enzyme
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If we use an antibiotic as a mycobacterial adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase inhibitor what are the targets?
Mycobacterial ATP synthase
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A patient wth a pneumonic receives a beta lactam but their condition does not improve, the patient is given a macrolide and they fully recover. What is the explanation?
The patient was infected with a mycoplasma pneumoniae.
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What antibiotics target the cell wall
Beta-lactams - penicillins - cephalosporins - monobactams - carbapenems Glycopeptides - vancomycin Bacitracin
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What antibiotics target the plasma membrane?
Polymyxins - polymixin B - colistin Lipopeptide - daptomycin
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What antibiotics target the Ribosomes?
30S subunit - aminoglycosides - tetracyclines 50S subunit - macrolides - lincosamides - chloramphenicol - oxazolidinones
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What antibiotics target DNA synthesis?
Fluoroquinolones - ciprofloxacin - levofloxacin - moxifloxacin
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What antibiotics target RNA synthesis?
Rifamycins - rifampin
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What antibiotics target Metabolic pathways?
Folic acid synthesis - sulfonamides - sulfones - trimethoprim Mycolic acid synthesis - izoniazid
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You are trying to prevent fungus infection in the hospital. What type of activity should your antimicrobial agent have if it is used to sterilize surfaces in a hospital room? A) Bactericidal B) Fungistatic C) Fungicidal D) Viricidal
C) Fungicidal
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What mechanisms do antifungal drugs use?
inhibit ergosterol synthesis bind ergosterol in the cell membrane and create pores that disrupt the membrane inhibit cell wall synthesis inhibit microtubules and cell division **Lots of fungal infections are skin-based or nail-based so we can use fairly caustic chemicals to treat them**
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Your patient asks you to explain why Ivermectin cannot be used to treat SARS-CoV-2 infections and can only be used against parasitic worms. How do you respond?
The target of Ivermectin are present in invertebrate nerve and muscle cells, and are not present in viruses.
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How do antiviral drugs work?
You want to target viral enzymes that modify their nucleotides By adding nucleotide analogues, we're able to prevent synthesis of micro RNAs or other things made by the virus
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What mechanisms of action do antivirals depend on?
Nucleotide analog inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis Non-nucleoside noncompetitive inhibition Inhibt escape of virus from endosomes Inhibit neuraminadase Inhibit viral uncoating Inhibition of protease Inhibition of integrase Inhibition of membrane fusion
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What are some antimicrobial susceptivity tests?
Dilution Test the lowest dilution that inhibits turbidity (cloudiness) is the MIC. minimal inhibitory concentration In this example, the MIC is 8 μg/mL. Broth from samples without turbidity can be inoculated onto plates lacking the antimicrobial drug. The lowest dilution that kills ≥99.9% of the starting inoculum is observed on the plates is the MBC. minimal bactericidal concentration
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What is a microdilution tray?
A microdilution tray can also be used to determine MICs of multiple antimicrobial drugs in a single assay. In this example, the drug concentrations increase from left to right and the rows with clindamycin, penicillin, and erythromycin have been indicated to the left of the plate. For penicillin and erythromycin, the lowest concentrations that inhibited visible growth are indicated by red circles and were 0.06 μg/mL for penicillin and 8 μg/mL for erythromycin. For clindamycin, visible bacterial growth was observed at every concentration up to 32 μg/mL and the MIC is interpreted as >32 μg/mL.
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What is an E-Test?
The E-test can be used to determine the MIC of an antibiotic. In this E-test, vancomycin is shown to have a MIC of 1.5 μg/mL against Staphylococcus aureus.
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When measuring the activity of antimicrobial compounds, what is the difference between efficacy and susceptibility? A) There is no difference B) How fast it fills vs. how much it inhibits growth C) How much it kills vs. how much it inhibit growth D) How fast it kills and how much it kills vs. the concentration required to kill/inhibit growth.
D) How fast it kills and how much it kills vs. the concentration required to kill/inhibit growth. Efficacy = how fast and how much Susceptibility = the concentration required
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What are the 7 mechanism of antibiotic resistance?
Efflux pump Blocked penetration Inactivation of enzymes Target modification Overproduction of target Production of alternate enzymes Target mimicry
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You sequenced an antibiotic resistant gram-negative bacterium that is a lysogen. You observed that the antibiotic is quickly degraded by the bacterial cells. What type of mechanism is mediating the antibiotic resistance and how was it acquired? A) Enzymatic inactivation acquired via conjugation B) ABC efflux pump acquired via transduction C) Enzymatic inactivation acquired by transduction D) Target modification acquired via conjugation
C) Enzymatic inactivation acquired by transduction
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What is a superbacteria?
bacteria resistant to most antibiotics used to treat infections
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What is antibiotic stewardship?
an effort to follow evidence-based antibiotic usage to stop antimicrobial overuse and slow antimicrobial resistance
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What is epidemiology?
the study of the occurrence, distribution, and determinants of health and disease in a population goal - identify the nature of disease and transmission surveillance and reporting to trace the spread of a disease
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What is public health concerned with?
Health of the population as a whole Their goal is to keep the population healthy - slow or stop the spread of infectious disease.
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What is mortality?
incidence of death in a popultion
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What is morbidity?
incidence of disease (fatal, non-fatal, severe, mild)
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What is DALY (Disability-adjusted life year)
disease burden in terms of lost years due to disease, disability and/or premature death
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What is the effect of morbidity on the Disease-adjusted life year (DALY)?
It has a negative effect as it decreases the quality of life of individuals.
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What does prevalence mean in terms of epidemiology
it's the total number of cases (new and existing) in a given time
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What does incidence mean in terms of epidemiology
it's the total number of new cases in a given time.
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What does epidemic mean in terms of epidemiology?
a large number of people in a population are affected
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What does pandemic mean in terms of epidemiology?
A widespread, usually worldwide population is affected.
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What does endemic mean in terms of epidemiology?
It is constantly present in a population. Presence of a reservior.
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The presence of a constant reservoir in a given population. A) What is an epidemic? B) What is a pandemic? C) What is endemic? D) What is prevalence? E) What is incidence?
C) What is endemic
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What is a reservoir?
"Normal/natural" habitiat of an infectious microbe - Animal Reservoir = zoonotic disease - Environmental Reservoir = sapronosis (present in water, soil, erc) - Human Reservoir = human only disease
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What is zooanthroponosis?
humans can give disease to animals ie. mastitis in dairy cows
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What are mechanisms of transmission for disease?
1. Contact Transmission - direct (physical) - indirect (via an intermediate carrier) *vehicles like food* *fomites like door knobs* *vectors like mosquitos* 2. Droplet Transmission - travel less than 1m from the source *sneezing* 3. Airborne Transmission - travel more than 1m and stay suspended for hours *microbes that freely float*
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How can we prevent the spread of infectious diseases?
1. Eliminate the reservior - Animal (immunize or slaughter) - Environment (Decontaminate or avoid) - Human (identify, isolate & treat infected host) 2. Limit the availability of new hosts - improve living condition, general health & safety - Vaccination 3. Block routes of transmission - Indirect contact *clean water, prevent food contamination* *remove vectors* *clean fomites* - Airborne *flow system to prevent dispersal* - Droplets & direct contact *wash hands* *Barriers like gloves, gowns, masks*
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What are asymptomatic individuals?
Individuals who are affected by microbial infection but show no symptoms.
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What is the swiss cheese method of controlling microbes?
Using multiple strategies to reduce the risks of infection.
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What are the challenges associated with preventing the spread of infectious disease?
Natural progression of an infection - asymptomatic carriers vs. pre-symptomatic Vaccine compliances Reservoirs Social Pressure - working while sick
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What are the most effective methods to decrease infectious disease incidence?
1. Clean drinking water supply 2. Clean food supply 3. Promoting sanitization and personal hygiene 4. Controlling insect vectors 5. Public education about STIs and respiratory disease
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What are the current issues in public health practices?
1. Global disparity in preventing infectious disease 2. New infectious disease continue to appear - microbes mutate and evolve - spillover events (zoonosis) - global warming and travel

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