prelim 1 Flashcards

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Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

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Body is a habitat for

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Domains

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What lives on and in your body?

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C, O, N, H, P and S

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What are atoms made of?

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Atoms

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What are molecules made of?

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Large complex molecules

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What are macromolecules made of?

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H20, H2, CH4, NH3

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What is Earth’s early atmosphere?

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Inorganic compounds

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Organization of what into organic life forms Earth’s atmosphere

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Amino acids/other organic compounds

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Miller-Urey Experiment produced what with electricity

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Molecules that make up proteins

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What are amino acids

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R

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What symbol are amino acids?

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Molecules that made up nucleic acids?

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What are nucleotides?

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Pentose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogenous base

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What are nucleotides made of?

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20 different types (polypeptides)

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What do amino acids organize themself into

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4-5 different types (polynucleotides)

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What do nucleotides organize themself into

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Macromolecules

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There chains of molecules form what

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Polynucleotides

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Make copies of themselves

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Complementarity

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How do they self-replicate

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Nucleotides

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Bind to one nucleotide more than others

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Lipids

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Form contained structures when in water

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Central Dogma

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Genetic flow of information in the cell (DNA replication, RNA synthesis transcribes, protein synthesis translates)

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DNA

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much more stable than RNA

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Tree of life

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Show relationships in evolution based on shared characteristic

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Divide between Bacteria/(Archaea&Eukarya)

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Last common ancestor of today’s species

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MOST IMPORTANT

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  1. Inorganic molecules form organic molecules under right conditions, 2. Enclosure of nucleic acids and protins in lipid shells may be precursors of life, 3. All life on Earth falls into three domains of the tree of life
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Hair follicles
Zits form where
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Sebaceous gland
What produces oil, blocking duct into follicle
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Propionibacterium acnes
Blockage leads to infection by what
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Bacterium
What is propionibacterium acnes?
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Anaerobic environments (no oxygen)
Where do propionibacterium acnes occur?
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Last universal common ancestor
LUCA
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Bacteria + Archaea
What domains are enormously abundant
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Cocci (spherical), bacilli (rod-shaped), and spirilla (spiral)
Shapes of bacteria and archaea
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Squares, stars, filaments
Other shapes of bacteria and archaea
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Rod-shaped
Propionobacterium acnes is what shape
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Oil (chemoheterotroph)
What does pripionobacterium acnes eat for energy?
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Cell membrane + cell wall together
What makes an envelope?
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Bilipid layer of phospholipids (micelles)
What makes cell membrane?
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Peptidoglycan
Cell wall
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Gram-positive and gram-negative
What types can cell envelopes come in?
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Staining process used to determine permeability
What is a gram
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Components of cell wall/membrane can be targeted by antibiotics
Why is gram important?
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Blue/purple
What color is gram positive
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Red/pink
What color is gram negative
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Gram-positive
What color is propionobacterium acnes?
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Malassezia spp.
What may cause dandruff
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Sebum(oil/lipids) and carbon (chemoorganotroph)
What does Malassezia consume for energy?
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Skin surface
Where does Malassezia occur?
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Unsaturated fatty acids, penetrating skin
The consumption of lipids results in what
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A eukarya (fungi?)
What domain is Malassezia spp.
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Bacteria + Archaea
Do not have nucleus/other organelles
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Typically circular
Bacteria + Archaea DNA shape
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Organelles
Act as active site for respiration/photosynthesis
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Endosymbiosis of bacteria in archaea
Where did organelles come from?
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Membrane-bound organelles of eukaryotes
What did endosymbiosis result in
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Eukarya
Archaea more closely related to
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Acne is caused by infction with bacteria Propionibacterium acnes, 2. Dandruff is dead skin that can increase from scalp irritation caused by fungi Malassezia
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Metazoans (contain more than one cell, usually differentiated tissues)
What are head lice
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Obligate parasites
What are head lice to humans
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Vectores, have symbionts
What are they of microorganisms
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Eukaryotes evolved through symbiosis between tow microorganisms, 2. Metazoans are one branch of many in tree of eukaryotes, 3. Parasites are symbionts, but not all symbionts are parasites
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Ectosymbiosis
When one species lives on or near another species
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Endosymbiosis
When one species lives inside another
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Larger species
Host
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Smaller species
Symbiont
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Mutualistic
All partners benefit
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Commensalism
One partner benefits while other is unharmed
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Parasitic
One partner benefits while other is hurt
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Obligate
Symbiosis is necessary for survival (ex. Dracunulus medinesis)
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Facultative
Symbiosis is opportunistic and symbiont/host can exist without other partner (ex. Naeegleria fowleri)
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Mitochondria
Derived from a bacterium
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Symbiont became dependent on host, lost most genes, then host evolved linear chromosomes, fusion resulted
Why is symbiosis important for evolution?
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Mitochondria and chloroplasts
Have double membranes (have original membranes and obtained another from host)
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Have large number of other pathogens within body, but pathogenic to humans
Head lice are...
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Pediculus humanus
Name of lice
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Arthropod
What are head lice species
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Human-human contact
Vectored how?
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Pyrethrins
How to treat lice
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Delay closure of voltage channels in nerves
What do pyrethrins do
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Blood-borne diseases
What can head lice transmit
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Epidemic typhus
Bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii
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Relapsing fever
Bacterium Borrelia recurrentis
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Trench fever
Bacterium Bartonella quintana
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Bartonella quintana
Head lice are a vector for
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Aerobic gram negative, picky about cell culture conditions, grow best with human blood, may exist in arthropods but grows best in humans, not a symbiont
Facts about Bartonella quintana
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Have endosymbiotic bacteria
Because blood lacks nutritional requirmeents, as can only be made by some bacteria, lice have ... to make these compounds
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Hosts
What are head lice in a mutualistic endosymbiosis
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A mutualistic relationship
What is endosymbiosis with the bacterium Riesia spp
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Low
Lice can survive but have what chance of success
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Riesia has no genes for energy metabolish, gets nutrients from host
Why is symbiosis important for evolution?
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Microbiome
Where is this common
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Pthiris pubis
Crabs name (pubic lice)
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Mutualistic endosymbiosis result in loss of genetic capability to live independently, 2. Eukaryotes arose through endosymbiosis where relationship became obligate, 3. Some bacteria amy be widspread in metazoan but may not be symbiont, 4. Pathogenic bacteria may be vectored from host to host
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Bacteria
Dental plaque caused by ... in mouth
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Reduced chemical compounds
Stink is caused by
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Bacteria use catabolic reactions to capture energy which is then used in anabolism, 2. Reaction carried out by enzymes encoded for by genes, 3. Some interactions are pathogenic resulting in degradation by enzyme activities
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Lots of habitats for microorganisms bc moist/warm
Description of oral cavity
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Dead mucose, ingested material, egested material
Resources for microorganisms
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[Oral] Microbiome
Most microorganisms do not cause disease (not pathogens)
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Thick cell wall
What type of cell wall does gram positive have
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Thin cell wall/outer membrane
What type of cell wall does gram negative have
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Oxygen comes into direct contact w/ surfaces
Aerobic habitats
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No oxygen contact, under biofilms, back of tongue
Anaerobic habitats
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Anaerobic reactions
Stinky compounds are reduced compounds produced in
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Metabolism/catabolism
What is stinky compound formation part of
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Inflammation of gums
Gingivitis
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Gram negative bacterium Porphyromonas endodontalis
How is gingivitis caused
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Anaerobic bacterium
What is P. endodontalis
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Methyl mercaptan
What does P. endodontalis make
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Electrons (chemical bonds)
Where does energy come from
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Gain of electrons
Reduction
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Loss of electrons
Oxidation
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ATP (Adenosine triphosphate)
How do living cells store energy?
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Three phosphate-oxygen double bonds
Describe ATP
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Energy producing and energy consuming reactions
ATP is key to
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Glogogen (sugar polymer), starch, sulfur compounds, fats
How to store energy
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Used in anabolism (create)
What happens to ATP
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Amino acids to proteins, nucleotides to nucleic acids, sugars to polysaccharides, fatty acids to lipids
ATP Makes what new microbial cells
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Respiration: oxygen used as electron acceptor (aerobic/anaerobic). Fermentation: organic compounds used as electron acceptor (only anaerobic)
Catabolism (break)
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Ribosomes
Made of RNA and proteins
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Peptides
Amino acids formed into chains
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Form proteins
Peptides form polymers, which form
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Proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
Enzymes
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Catabolism
Bacteria can make stinky products by
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Pathogen
Microorganism that can cause infection
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Infection
Overgrowth of microoganism in the body
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Pathogen
What is P. endodontalis considered
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Virulence factors
Cause disorder
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Cellular structure (capsular polysaccharide and fimbrae)
Virulence factors comprise both
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Inflammation, attachment structures
What does capsular polysaccharide and fimbrae do
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Protease
Gingipain is a type of secreted enzyme
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Pathogen survival/colonization
Purpose of virulence factors
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Capsules and slime layers
External cell structures
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Provide protection and attachment
What do external polysaccharide layers do
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Tightly, loosely
Capsule is ____ attached, slime layer is ____ attached
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Establishing pathogenicity
Koch's Postulates
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1. Isolate pathogen, 2. Grow pathogen in laboratory to obtain a pure culture, 3/ Inoculate healthy individual with sample from pure culture (should cause same disease symptoms), 4. Reisolate same pathogen from individual
What is Koch's Postulates
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Bacteria capture enrgy through catabolic reactions w/ organic and inorganic molecules then use energy for anabolism, 2. Catabolism is mediated by proteins -> encoded by genes -> make up genome, 3. Pathogens are disorder-causing microorganisms that cause degradation though catabolic ractiosn and structural features
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Communicate and cooperate
Bacteria can
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Build structures, coordinate behavior
They do this by
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Mold (fungus, eukaryote)
"Black mold" is
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Bacteria growing in a biofilm
"Red mold" is
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Many bacteria grow in structures, stuck to surfaces (biofilms) -- which provide protection, 2. Bacteria must sometimes cooperate and communicate throguh quorum sensing, 3. Biofilms can be very costly to manage and dangerous for human heath
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Serratia marcescens
Name of red mold
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Red-shaped bacterium
Shape of red mold
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Distinctive red pigment (prodigiosin = secondary compound)
Red mold creates what appearance
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Pathogenic under right conditions
Opportunistic pathogen
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Commonly studies pathogen of insects, cause disease in corals
S. marcescens as a pathogen
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Urinary tract, respiratory tract, and eyes
S. marcescens can be a pathogen to humans
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Can form biofilms on surfaces, attach to abiotic surfaces (shower), and biotic surfaces (eye, urinary tract)
How is S. marcescens a pathogen
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Structure of polysaccharides, contains bacteria, stuck to surface
Biofilm is a
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Mushroom structure
S. Marcescens in shower is shaped like
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Cell-chain or filament biofilms
S. Marcescens in eyeball is shaped like
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Eats soap scum and shampoo residue
S. Marcescens in shower eats
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Vary depending on environment/species
Biofilm structures
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Default
Biofilms are the what type of state for many bacteria
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Low nutrient, wet environments
Beneficial in what type of environments
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Stay in place (form where water moves/circulates nutrients)
Why form a biofilm
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Stays safe (strength in numbers, protection from immune system, antibiotics, stress, predators)
Why else form a biofilm
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Make friends (involve multiple species, benefit from each other's abilities)
Why else else form a biofilm
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Stick to it (cell surface proteins (ex. pili, fimbriae, flagella)
How to stick to surfaces to form biofilm
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Extracellular polymer substances (EPS)
How to build matrix to form biofilm
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Cells cooperate to form matrix, strength in numbrs
How to form matrix
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Cell-cell communication (quorum sensing
How do bacteria know if there are enough cells to make biofilm
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Minimum number of individuals needed for a group to conduct business
Quorum
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Minimum density of individuals, not absolute number
For bacteria
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Access their own density
Quorum sensing lets bacteria
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Cell produces signal that diffuses into environment, signal enters other cells, if enough signal -- "turns on" a trait
How does quorum sensing work?
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Cost billions of dollars yearly (cleaning/maintaining/replacing equipment, water/food contamination, infections)
Why care abt biofilms?
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Associated w disease, make antibiotics less effective, increase chance of nosocomical infection (difficult to clean, forms on urinary catheters)
Biofilms cause serious medical problems
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Disrupting quorum sensing could be used to treat infections, possible target for antibiotics
Quorum sensing if involved in biofilm formation/pathogen production of virulence factors
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Biofilms complex structures that are important to bacteria (requires bacterial cooperation and lead to benefits), 2. Bacteria can communicate w each other through quorum sensing (cells make signals that other cells receive and respond to), 3. Biofilms can be very costly to clean up and lead to contamination and infection
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Intraspecies communication
When is it good to have strength in numbers
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Biofilm formation, make virulence factors that let pathogens invade host tissue, make products that allow them to work together for motility
Examples of quorum sensing for intraspecies
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Predatory bacteria, hunt in cooperative "wolf packs", and work together to build spore producing "fruiting bodies"
Swarming motility in Myxococcus
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Interspecies communication
When you want to eavesdrop or cooperate
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Pick up signals from other species, cooperate (biofilm formation)
Examples of quorum sensing for interspecies
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Universal autoinducers
Frequently turn on traits in many other bacteria
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Diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain
Gastroenteritis symptoms
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Cholera, Typhoid
Infectious agents (bacteria)
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Cryptosporidium, Giardia
Infectious agents (protozoa)
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Polio, Hepatitis A
Infectious agents (virus)
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Wastewater treatment and water purification
Prevention of waterborne diseases
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Sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, chlorination, storage, distribution
Water treatment process
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Indicator organisms
Potable/recreational water regularly tested for
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Coliform, fecal coliform, escherichia coli
Types of indicator organisms
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Gram negative, non-sporulating facultatively aerobic rods that rerment lactose to makes gas within 48hr at 35C
Coliform
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Coliforms from the gut of warm blooded animals
Fecal coliforms
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Common fecal coliform
Escherichia coli
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Gram negative, short generation time (20 min in 37C)
About Escherichia coli
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All DNA found in an organism (or virus)
Genome
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Has essential genes
Chromosomes
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oriC (origin of chromosome replication)
Single, closed circular chromosome w a single site where DNA replication begins
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E. coli K12
Workhorse of the lab
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E. coli A and B1
Apart of our gut microbiome (good bacteria)
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E. coli 0157:H7
Produces Shiga toxin (food borne disease)
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Microbiota, proteome, metabolome, microbiome
Types of microbiomes
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Nutrition, immunomodulation, mood/mental health, colonization resistance
What goods and services to microbiomes do
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Disruption of homeostasis between gut microbiota and host
Dysbiosis
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Human development, nutrition, gut dysbiosis (IBD), Obesity, pharrmacology, antibiotics, human behavior, neurological disease, cancer
What conditions may be impacted by the microbiome
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Collection of all microorganisms associated w a place
Microbiome
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20,000 genes
Human genome has how many genes
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3 million genes
Human microbiome has how many genes
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Conditions
What dictates the kind of microbes that predominate
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Skin is desiccating, salty, acidic, inhospitable
Skin microenvironments characteristics
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Higher moisture
Colonization occurs mostly in areas with
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Gram positive and desiccation resistant
Most skin-colonizing bacteria are:
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Firmicutes (Staph, strep (boils)) and Actinobacteria (Propionbacterium acnes)
Skin pathogens
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Dental plaque
As food/saliva passes our teeth, there is selective pressure for organisms to form a biofilm on tooth surfaces
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Streptococcus spp and others produce polysaccharide capsulre
What forms as part of matrix of dental plaque
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Hedgehog structure
Structure of dental plaque
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Produce acid from sugars
Lactic acid bacteria and others
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5.3
Critical pH for enamel dissolution is
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Low pH, sparse colonization
Upper GI tract
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specialized fermentation vessel
Large intestine
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Nearly sterile
Low pH, stomach was considered
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Helicobacter pylori
Motile spiral bacteria isolated from epithelium of gastric ulcers
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Campylobacter
Helicobacter pylori somewhat related to ..., which caused gastroenteritis
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Responsible for most gastric ulcers
Helicobacter pylori responsible for
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Resistance, especially from pharma
Helicobacter pylori met with considerable
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Infected w Helicobacter
Nearly all mammals w acid stomachs
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Modulate (educate) the immune resposne
H pylori helps...
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Due to antibiotic use
> 10% western children are infected w H. pylori
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peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease
Consequences of no H. pylori
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Overly sanitized world, exposd to many fewer microbes, wiping out important parts of our mictobiota when we take antibiotics, used to have helicobacter/parasites/worms and tuned to them, absence of these led to immune disfunction, people have tried to infect themselves w hookworms to overcome immune problems
Hygeine hypothesis
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Holding/dewatering tank
Large intestine was considered a ... for undigested food
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Complex/dynamic anaerobic microbial ecosystem
Large intestine now considered
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Fermented to volatile fatty acids -> absorbed by bloodstream -> used as carbon/energy source by host
What happens to food in the large intestine
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Hunter-gatherer's nutrition
Fermentation supplied a significan fraction of...
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Discourage colonization/overgrowth of pathogens, provide 10-15% calories from food (especially access to complex fatty acids), produce vitamins, help educate immune system and trigger maturation of gut, microbial metabolic byproduct modulate inflammatory response, impacts on conditions
Benefits of healthy gut microbiome
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First contacts with mom, then environment
Where do we get out gut microbes?
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Assembly influenced by diet (formula vs. breastmilk), altered by antibiotics, early conditions influence adult microbiota, genetics not so important
Community changes
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Fetus is sterile -> first exposure during birth, mother's milk/other environmental sources seed the GI tract and all external sites of body, community shaped by diet, environment, and genetic factors
Colonization factors
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Inoculum
Colonized with... by our mothers
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Bifidobacterium
Actinobacterium with a metabolism similar to LAB
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Desirable probiotic organism
Bifidobacterium is considered a
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Termination
What of breast feeding leads to more adult-like microbiota
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Clostridium botulinum
Honey contains what spors that can colonize an immature GI tract
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Probiotics
Live microbes consumed to provide a health benefit by altering gut function
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Prebiotics
Foods/supplements that alter gut community function
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Drug development, customized medicine
Microbial enzymes interact w drugs, alter their efficiacy and can alter severity of side effects, could be tailed to microbiome
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Fungal infections
Athlete's foot and jock itch are what type of infections
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Eukaryotic microorganisms
Fungi is what type of microorganism
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Fungi have positive/detrimental impacts on human life, 2. Fungi have unique life cycles involving asexual/sexual reproduction, 3. Inhibiting fungal infections involves inhibiting cell wall synthesis and opening transmembrane channels in cell walls
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Tinea cruris
Jock itch scientific name
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Tinea pedis
Athlete's food scientific name
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Eukaryotes, achlorophyllous, have filamentous somatic structures, produce spores, live by absorptive nutrition, sexual/asexual reproduction
Fungal characteristics
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Economically significant, human disease, ecosystem services
Why is fungi important to us
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Mycoses
Mucormycosis occurs in immunocompromised patients
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Mycotoxins
Plant pathogenis fungus that makes neurotoxins
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Life cycle stage
Structures reflect
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Somatic (growing) structures filamentous
How do the structures grow?
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Thick capsules
What do they have outside of cell walls
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Extra cellular digestion
Obtain nutrients and energy by
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Absorptive nutrition
Mechanism to obtain energy/nutrients
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Digestive enzymes excreted into a substrate, degrade substrate
What happens during absorptive nutrition
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Absorbed through cell walls
During absorptive nutrition, the smaller molecules are
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Aspergillus sp.
Asexual spores (Conidia)
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Ringworm
Causes Jock Itch and Athlete's foot
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Candidia albicans
Oral and vaginal infections
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Invasive
Candidia albicans can form a ... infection
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Secreted enzymes used to absorb nutrients
Virulence factors of Candidia albicans
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Because these are eukaryotes, antibiotics used for bacteria is ineffective
Treatment of fungal infections
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Cell wall components unique to fungi (Echinocandins, Azoles, Amphotericin B)
Treatments target what
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Debridement (removal by surgery)
Severe invasive fungal infections require
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Aspergillosis
Inhalation of common mold
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Cryptococcus neoformans
Inhalation of Cryptococcus neoformans spores
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Mucormycosis
Inhlation of common bread mold spores
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Fungi have significant economic, ecological/human health importance, 2. Fungi have unique cell walls mechanisms for nutrituon/generating enrgy and undergo a/sexual life cycle stages, 3. Fungi ar sometimes commensal but can cause infections which are trated by targeting cell wall components
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Aquatic microorganisms
Swimming pools re engineered habitats for
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Pathogens and non-pathogens
Bacteria inhabiting them include
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Human pathogens can exist in swimming pools but most killed by sanitation, 2. Microbial communities are structured by their habitat, 3. Microorganisms can be introduced from external sources and be maintained in refugia
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Count by plating
How to count bacteria
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Not everything grows on solid media, diff bacteria require diff growth media, some bacteria like to remain rare
Problems with plating bacteria
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Bacteria too small for light microscopy/easily confused
Problems with microscopy
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Fluorescent stains
Combined with what type of stains to allow you to count cells
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Autofluorescence (unstained)
Natural pigments (ex. Phycobilins in cyanobacteria)
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DAPI & Acridine Orange
DNA Stain
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SYBR Green I / SYBR Gold
Used in bacterial and viral counts
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More organic matter = more bacteria
Bacteria grow where there is food
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Survive sanitation of municipal water, evolve to tolerate sanitation procedures (chlorine), come from bathers
Why is there still bacteria in pool water
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Gram positive, firmicute, facultative aerobe, no spores, part of skin microbiom, cause infection when skin layers breached
Staphylococcus aureus
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Coagulase, several exotoxins, evades host immune system
Causes pathology through virulence factors
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Lots of potential for fecal bacteria to enter swimming pools
Enterococcus faecalis
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Resistant
Biofilms are somewhat ... to chemicals
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Form a matrix which can be impenetrable
Why are they somewhat resistant
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M. tuberculosis, actinobacteria, gram positive (no stain tho bc too waxy), difficult to treat, asymptomatic infection in large %
Mycobacteria
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Non-tuberculosis mycobacteria (NMTs)
What can also cause human disease
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Leprosy
Many species of NMTs can cause
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Forms strong biofilms that are difficult to penetrate w antibiotics
Mycobacteria forms...
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Bacterium that infects skin and nerves
M. leprae (leprosy/hansens' disease)
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Cooler temperatures
Conditions for M. leprae
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Caused inflammatory response -> turns tissue necrosis/death
Infection of M. leprae
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Detected in swimming pool/spa waters, highest in whirlpool
Mycobacteria found a lot in
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Skimmers remove floating materials, main drain removes sinking material, water filtered to remove cells/debris
Swimming pool filtration
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Membrane filters remove debris/cells by passing water through cartridge
Pool filters
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Produces enzyms to kill pathogens (helps purify water)
Sand filtration
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Bacterial biofilm on surface of sand
Schmutzdecke
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High salinity kills pathogens, can make pathogens less stable
Why saltwater pools don't have much bacteria
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Reductive dechlorination
Can use chlorine as an electron acceptor (some bacteria can eat)
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MOST IMPORTANT
1. Types of bacteria that thrive form spores or form biofilms (both resistant to chlorine), 2. Some bacteria may use chlorine in respiration as electron acceptor, 3. Bacteria in biofilms (pipes/surfaces) ma seed bacteria into overlying waters representing refugia, 4. Some bacteria may be pathogens
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Preserve
Ice on skating rinks does what to bacteria
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Accidental ingestion of ice/contact between ice and skin can cause infection by common commensal bacteria
Why would this be a problem?
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Live/grow at temperature >-24C
Psychophilic bacteria
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Live/grow at temperature >-20C
Extremophiles
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Bind ice crystal
Proteins do what to prevent freezing of cell contents