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Pathogens Flashcards

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Different shapes:

  • Bacilli (rod shaped or bacilli)
  • Vibrios (curved)
  • Cocci (spherical)
  • Diplococci (pairs of cocci)
  • Streptococci (chains of cocci)
  • Staphylococci (clusters of cocci)
  • Spirilla (spiral or helical)
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Bacteria

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Small, colourless plants

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Fungi

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Different shapes:

  • Helical naked
  • Helical enveloped
  • Icoshedral naked
  • Icosohedral enveloped
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Viruses

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4
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Different shapes:

  • Amoebae
  • Flagellates
  • Ciliates
  • Sporozoa
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Protozoa

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5
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Transmissible spongiform encephalpathies (TSEs)

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Prions

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Can convert to endospores

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Bacteria

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Possess both RNA + DNA

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Bacteria

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Grow in warm, dark, damp conditions.
Produce digestive enzymes and other substances to break down nutrients which they absorb by ‘bathing’ in the mixture of their secretions and moisture from environment.
- Spread by spores (seeds) usually carried in the air.

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Fungi

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Either RNA or DNA

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Viruses

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