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Ubiquitous - Answer-found everywhere

How do we classify microbes? - Answer-Prokaryotes: bacteria and arches

Eukaryotes: fungi, protozoa, and algae

Florence Nightingale - Answer-founder of medical statistics

which played a major role in disease in warfare and overcrowded areas

Robert Koch - Answer-founder of the scientific method of microbiology

demonstrated an important aspect of epidemiology - chain of infection


Know Koch's postulates - Answer-1) microbe is found in all cases of the disease, but
absent from healthy individuals

2) microbe is isolated from host and grown in pure culture

3) when microbe introduced into healthy host, the same disease occurs

4) same strain of microbe is obtained from newly diseased host


Alexander Fleming - Answer-discovered the first antibiotic from Penicillium notatum

Aseptic technique - Answer-keeping a sterile environment

not contaminating yourself or others

Antiseptic agents - Answer-chemicals that kills microbes

Watson and Crick - Answer-discovered the double helix

Rosalind Franklin - Answer-helped Watson and Crick in discovering the double helix but
was not recognized

Frederick Sanger - Answer-discovered DNA sequence

, Microbiota - Answer-collection of bacteria, arches and eukaryotic microbes that call us
home

Mutualism - Answer-most of these microbes in and on our bodies give benefits to us
and we give them some benefits

Adhesions - Answer-helps microbes to attach to and colonize epithelial lining
membranes

Colonizations - Answer-the ability of a microbe to affix to a body surface and multiply


Pathogen - Answer-any bacterium virus, fungus, protozoan or worm that cause disease

bacteria, virus, fungal, agents of disease

Pathogenicity - Answer-the ability of that organism to cause disease

Parasites - Answer-disease causing protozoa and worms

Primary pathogens - Answer-disease causing microbes with means to branch healthy
immune system

Opportunistic pathogens - Answer-cause of disease only in a compromised host

Virulence - Answer-degree or severity of disease

LD50 - Answer-lethal dose

what it takes to kill off 50% of a population

ID50 - Answer-infectious dose

what it takes to infect 50% of a population

Invasion - Answer-ability of some pathogens to actually enter and live inside cells of a
human or non-human animal host

Invasiveness - Answer-the ability of a bacterial pathogen to rapidly spread through
tissue

Fundamental host-pathogens interactions - Answer-1) Attachment
2) Immune avoidance
3) obtaining nutrients from host

Signs vs. Symptoms - Answer-Sign: something you can see

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