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What is sterilization?

A

The killing or removal of all viable organisms (including

endospores).

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What is inhibition?

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Effectively limiting microbial growth.

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What is decontamination?

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The treatment of an object to make it safe to handle.

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What is desinfection?

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Directly targets the removal of all pathogens, not necessarily all microorganisms

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What is the most widely used method for controlling microbial growth?

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heat treatment.

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What are the three physical methods?

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heat
filtration
radiation

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What are the three antimicrobials used internally

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antibiotics
antifungal
antivirals

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T or F : The time necessary to kill a defined fraction is independent of the initial cell concentration.

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true

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T or F : The D is not dependant on the population size while the TDT is

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true

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Sterilization is acheived by ___ minutes at ___˚C

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10-15 minutes

121˚C

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T or F : pasteurization kills listeria monocytogenes

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false, it reduces the microbial load.

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Flash pasteurization is ____ ˚C for ___ seconds

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72 ˚C

15 seconds

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bulk pasteurization is ____ ˚C for ___ minutes

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65˚C

30 minutes

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How does heat kills

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denature proteins

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How does radiation kills

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breaks DNA so inhibit replication

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What microorganism can resist an elevated level of radiation

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deinoccoccus radiodurans

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What are the two types of filters

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  1. depth filters

2. memrbane filters

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What are the three clases of antimicrobial agents?

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  1. bacteriostatic
  2. bacteriolytic
  3. bacteriocidal
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What is the only type of microbial agent that reduces the total number of cells and the total number of viable cells

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bacteriolytic

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When the total cell count and the viable cell count are not decreased, the antimicrobial agent is ___

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bacteriostatic

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When the total cell count is not decreased but the total viable count is decreased, the antimicrobial agent is ___

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bacteriocidal

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What is the MIC?

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minimum inhibitory concentration : the smallest amount of an agent that will inhibits the growth

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What is the MLC?

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minimum lethal concentration (MLC) : lowest concentration of an agent that kills a test organism

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What is the MBC?

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minimum bacteriocidal concentration. It is the lowest concentration of agent that kills a test bacterium.

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On a disc diffusion assay, the line delimiting the zone of microbial growth and the zone of no microbial growth is the ____
MIC
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Name the four types of chemical antimicrobial agents for external use
1. sterilants 2. disinfectants/sanitizers 3. antiseptics 4. antimicrobial drugs
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What is the only type of external antimicrobial agent that kills endospores
sterilants
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What are the different antimicrobial drug classes
1. antibiotics 2. antifungal 3. antiviral
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Disinfectants/Sanitizers are applied to ___
applied to nonliving objects or surface (can be toxic for | animals/humans).
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Antiseptics are applied to_____
surface of living tissues or skin (must not be toxic for | animals/humans).
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**Sodium hypochlorite is a ___
sterilant, desinfectant and antiseptic
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Antimicrobial drugs can either be ___ or ___
bacteriostatic | bacteriocidal
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Only ___ and _____ (sterilants) can kill endospores
halogens and alkylating agents
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What are the various targets of antimicrobial drugs?
1. cell wall synthesis 2. folic acid metabolism 3. cytoplasmimc membrane structure and function 4. lipid biosynthesis 5. Protein synthesis 6. Protein synthesis (30s inhibitor) 7. Protein synthesis (50s inhibitors) 8. DNA directed RNA polymerase 9. RNA elongation
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What was the name of the first antimicrobial drug?
salvarsan
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What are growth factors analogs?
structure similar to growth factors but can't functinon in a cell
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What are the two types of growth factors analogs seen in class
sulfa drugs | isoniazid
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***Sulfanilamide is an example of a ____ and it is an analgoue of ____
growth factor analog (sulfa drug) | p-aminobenzoic acid
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Isoniazid is a growth factor effective against ____ that interferes with the synthesis of ____
mycobacterium | mycolic acid
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What are the three types of synthetic antimicrobial drugs seen in class
1. growth factors analogs 2. nucleic acid analogs 3. quinolone
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Quinolones are antibacterial | compounds that interfere with ___
DNA gyrase (control DNA supercoiling).
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___ are one of the most important groups of antibiotics of all time discovered by alexander fleming
B-Lactams
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B-Lactams group includes :
penicillins, cephalosporins, and cephamycins.
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Penicillins are effective against gram ____ and they inhibits the ____
positive | cell wall synthesis
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What are the only two semisynthetic penicillin resistant to the enzyme b-lactamase
methicillin and oxacillin
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T or F : penicillin are named after the mold they are isolated from
true
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How does cephalosporins work
by inhibition of the cell wall synthesis
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How does the b-lactam inhibitis the cell wall growth
binds the TPase (important enzyme for the cross-linking of the peptidoglycan wall)
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the majority of antibiotics we use came from the bacteria ____ (80%)
streptomyces
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**Streptomycin is an _____
aminoglycoside
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***Streptomycin target the ______ and is bacterio___
target the 30s subunits and causes misreading of the mRNA | bacteriocidal
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What are the 4 antibiotics isolated from proxaryotes groups seen in class
1. aminoglycosides 2. chloramphenicol 3. macrolides 4. tetracyclines
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What is the target of chlorampehnicol?
binds the 23s rRNA and block peptide elongation
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Chlorampehnicol is bacterio___
static
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What is the target of macrolides
target the 50s subunit of the ribosome
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What is the target of tetracyclines?
inhibits the 30s ribosomal subunit
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Why are antiviral drugs more toxic than antibiotics
Most antiviral drugs also target host structures, resulting in toxicity
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Most successful and commonly used antivirals are the _____
nucleoside analogs
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***Fluconazole and nyastin inhibits ____
ergosterol synthesis

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