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Microorganisms correct answers living things too small to see Decomposition correct answers Breakdown of dead plants/animals Bioremediation correct answers Intentional use of microbes to brake down waste Normal Microbiota correct answers Microbes that live in/on the body which help protect...

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MBI 111 Exam 1 Terms (Abshire) || All Correct.
Microorganisms correct answers living things too small to see

Decomposition correct answers Breakdown of dead plants/animals

Bioremediation correct answers Intentional use of microbes to brake down waste

Normal Microbiota correct answers Microbes that live in/on the body which help protect us from
harmful microbes

Nitrogen Fixation correct answers certain bacteria fix by removing Nitrogen from air (plants)

Photosynthesis correct answers Carbon Dioxide + Sun --> Oxygen + sugars/carbs consumed by
living things

Examples of foods produced by positive microbes correct answers Beer, Wine, Cheese

True Pathogens correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease in healthy people with
normal immune defenses

Opportunistic Pathogens correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease when immune
defenses are compromised

Infectious dose correct answers Minimum # of microbes required to cause an infection

Acute Infection correct answers Infection that develops quickly

Chronic Infection correct answers Infection that progresses/persists

Communicable disease correct answers disease where pathogens spread host to host

Non-communicable disease correct answers does not spread host to host

Latent disease correct answers agent remains inactive for a while, later becomes active

Sequelae correct answers Long term or permanent damage to tissue/organs after disease

Etiology correct answers Cause of disease

Subclinical Infection correct answers NO symptoms of disease

Endogenous Infection correct answers Infection caused by normal microbiota

Exogenous Infection correct answers Infection caused by pathogenic microbes originating
outside the host

, Localized Infection correct answers Invading microbes are limited to small part of body

Systemic infection correct answers invading microbes or microbial products spread throughout
body

Focal infection correct answers invading microbes "breaks loose" and carried to other tissues

Mixed infection correct answers infection involving more than one type of microbe

Endemic correct answers occurring at an expected level

Epidemic correct answers occurring in excess

Pandemic correct answers world wide epidemic

Incidence correct answers # of new cases

Prevalence correct answers # of cases existing

Symptoms correct answers Things one feels but cannot be measured

Signs correct answers Body changes healthcare worker can measure

5 stages; Cause of Infection correct answers Initial exposure-> Intensity of symptoms ->
incubation -> prodromal -> stage period of invasion -> convalescent period

Incubation stage correct answers Time from initial contact with the infectious agent at the portal
of entry to the appearance of the first symptoms

Prodromal stage correct answers Short period of mild, early symptoms such as fatigue or minor
head or muscle aches

Period of invasion stage correct answers sings/symptoms are present, the immune system and/or
treatment either overcomes the pathogen or death of the patient occurs

Secondary Infection correct answers 2nd microbe MIGHT take advantage of weakened immune
system. Sometimes more dangerous than primary infection.

Convalescent period correct answers Strength/health returns

3 relationships between Microbes/Humans correct answers Comensalism/Mutalism/Parasitism

Host correct answers Person or animal microbe is living

Disease correct answers any deviation from health

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