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Study Guide Lecture 1 Part 2 Flashcards

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1
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Is a microscopic organism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye

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Microbes

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Refers to a set of practices and procedures used to prevent contamination by unwanted microorganisms in medical, laboratory, and other settings.

Prevent contamination of sterile surfaces

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Aseptic technique

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Hand hygiene
Sterilization of equipment
Use of PPE
Disinfecting surfaces
Minimizing exposures

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Aseptic techniques

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A ______ is a substance used to set or stabilize stains of dyes; in this case, grams iodine acts like a trapping agent that complexes with the crystal violet, making the crystal violet iodine complex clump and stay contained in thick layers of peptidoglycan in the cell walls.

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Mordant

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5
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Combines positive staining with negative staining

Basic dye stains the cell

Acidic dye stains the background

The ______ appears as a halo around a colored cell

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Capsule

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The major component of bacterial cell walls is called _______; it is only found in bacteria.

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Peptidoglycan

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Typically Form the bulky mass of extra cellular matrix

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Proteoglycans

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8
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Gram negative cell walls are structurally more complex, containing a thin layer peptidoglycan and an outer membrane containing

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Lipopolysaccharide

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9
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Functions as an endotoxin in infections involving gram negative bacteria, contributing to symptoms such as fever, hemorrhaging, and septic shock.

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Lipopolysaccharide

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10
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States that diseases may result from microbial infection

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Germ theory of disease

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Occurs when when a wave bounces off of a material.

A red piece of cloth may reflect red light to our eyes while absorbing other colors of light.

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Reflection

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Occurs when a material captures the energy of a light wave.

In the case of glow and the dark plastics, the energy from light absorbed and then later re-emitted as another form of phosphorescence.

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Absorbance

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Occurs when light waves change direction as they enter a new medium

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Refraction

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Is defined as the ability of a lens to enlarge the image of an object when compared to a real one

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Magnification

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Magnification of 10X means that the image appears _____ the size of the object as viewed with the naked eye

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10 times larger

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16
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Is the ability to tell that two separate points or objects are separate

Poor _____ results in a fuzzy image

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Resolution

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17
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Resolution is affected by

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Wave length

Numerical aperture

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18
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The _____ of a lens indicates how much it can magnify a specimen

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Power

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19
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Bacteria require greater _____ than eukaryotic cells

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Magnification

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20
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Is the visible difference between a specimen and its background

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Contrast

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21
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Most cells are transparent, resulting in low _____ when viewed on a light background

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Contrast

22
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Staining cells increases ______, increasing visibility

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Contrast

23
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Placing _____ between the lens and specimen reduces refraction
More light is captured by objective lens

Results in greater resolution at higher magnification

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Immersion oil

24
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Immersions oil lenses (usually 100x) are specially designed to be used with immersion oil. Do not use immersion oil with

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40 x objective

25
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Adheres the specimen to the slide
Kills the cells
Coagulates cytoplasm proteins, which can increase visibility when stained
Common fixatives : heat and chemicals

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Fixation

26
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If a sample is to be stained a ____ must be made

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Smear

27
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A ____ is composed of all the microbes that live in and on a host

Estimated ranges 1:1 to 10:1

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Microbiome

28
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Colonize the host long term

Do not cause disease under normal conditions

May cause opportunistic disease

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Normal microbiota

29
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Colonize the host for a short period of time

May be present for days, weeks, or months

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Transient microbiota

30
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This pump uses ATP as energy to move three Na+ ions out and two K+ in

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Sodium potassium pump

31
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More microbes are established during and immediately after birth

Vaginal birth

Cesarean birth

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Lactobacillius and bacteriodes

Staphylococcus epidermis

32
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Antibiotic use is associated with

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Yeast infections

Vaginitis
Thrush

C. Difficile colitis

33
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Is a disease caused by a eukaryotic parasite transmitted to humans by mosquitoes

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Malaria

34
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Is a common fungal infection of the skin

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Ringworm

35
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Causes thrush and vaginitis

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Candida albicans

36
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A dimorphic fungus, causes subcutaneous mycoses also know as

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Rose gardener disease

37
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Algae May cause disease in humans due to harmful algal blooms

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Red tide

38
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Is an effective method to distinguish between bacteria with different types of cell walls, and is the most frequently used staining techniques

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Gram staining

39
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Steps to gram staining

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  1. First crystal violet, primary stain is applied to heat fixed smear
  2. Next gram mordant is added
  3. Next a decolorizing agent is added usually an ethanol or an acetone
  4. Finally a counterstain usually Safranin
40
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Gram stain process step 1

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Crystal violet

Primary stain is added to specimen smear

Stains cells purple or blue

41
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Gram stain step 2

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Iodine

Mordant makes dye less soluble so it adheres to cell walls

Cells remain purple or blue

42
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Gram staining step 3

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Alcohol

Decolorizer washes away stain from gram negative cells

Gram positive cells remain purple or blue

Gram negative cells remain colorless

43
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Gram staining step 4

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Safranin

Counterstain allows dye adherence to gram negative cells

Gram positive cells remain purple or blue

Gram negative cells appear pink or red

44
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An ______ is able to differentiate two types of gram positive cells: those that have waxy mycolic acids in their cell walls, and those that do not.

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Acid fast stain

45
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Do not absorb basic dyes; therefore, a negative staining technique (staining around the cells) is typically used for _______.

The dye stains the background but does not penetrate the capsules, which appear like halos around the borders of the cell.

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Capsule staining

46
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Uses two stains to differentiate endospores from the rest of the cell. The schaffer Fulton method uses heat to push the primary stain _________ into the endospore. Washing with water decolorizes the cell but the endospore retains the green stain.

Counter stain for endospore staining ?

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Endospore staining

Malachite green

Safranin pink

47
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Endospore staining techniques are important for identifying ____________ and _________, the two genera of endospore producing bacteria that contain clinically significant species.

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Bacillus and clostridium

Anthrax and c. Diff

48
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The waxy acid fast cells retain the carbolfuchsin even after a Decolorizering is applied, a secondary counter stain methylene blue, is then applied, which renders non acid fast cells blue.

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Acid fast staining

49
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When light passes from one medium to another, the light ray bends

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Refraction of light

50
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Are tail like cellular structures used for locomotion by some bacteria, archea, and eukaryotes

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Flagella

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