Introduction Flashcards

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Microbiology came from these three words

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• Micros - small
• Bios - life
• Logos - study

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is an organism that is microscopic.

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A microorganism or a microbe

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is the study of all living organisms that are too small to be visible with the naked eye.

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MICROBIOLOGY

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MICROBIOLOGY is the study of the ff. MICROBES

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• Bacteria
• Archaea
• Viruses
• Fungi
• Prions
• Protozoa
• Algae

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make key roles in nutrient cycling, biodegredation/biodeterioration, climate change, food spoilage, the cause and control of disease, and biotechnology.

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microbes

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Microbes can be put to work in many ways. Such as the ff

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• Making life-saving drugs
• Manufacturing of biofuels
• Cleaning up pollution
• Producing/processing food and drink

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refers to the first step that occurs when bacteria, viruses, or other microbes that cause disease enter the body and begin to multiply.

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Infection

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occurs when the cells in the body are damaged as a result of the infection in signs and symptoms of an illness appear.

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Disease

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In response to infection, the _____springs into action - an army of WBCs, antibodies, and other mechanisms goes to work to rid the body of what is causing the infection.

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immune system

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  • Almost swept the whole of human race
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PATHOGENS

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EPIDEMICS and its causes

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Plague - Yersinia pestis
Cholera - Vibrio cholerae
Smallpox - Variola virus

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BACTERIA
Singular: bacterium

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  • Relatively simple, single-celled (unicellular) organisms
  • Their genetic material is not enclosed in a special nuclear membrane
  • Bacterial cells are prokaryotes
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Viruses are so small that most can be seen only with an electron microscope, and they are_____

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acellular (not cellular)

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Structurally very simple, a virus particle contains a core made of…

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only one type of nucleic acid, either
DNA or RNA (but not both)

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Virus

The core is surrounded by a protein coat, which is sometimes encased by a lipid membrane called______.

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ENVELOPE

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BENEFICIAL ASPECTS of MICROBIOLOGY

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• Industrial (food & beverages)
• Decomposers
• Normal microbiota
• Producers of oxygen (algae & cyanobacteria)
• Food chain
• Microbial Ecology
• Genetic engineering; Pharmaceuticals (antibiotics)

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Provides a first line of defense against microbial pathogens

it assists in digestion, plays a role in toxin degradation and contribute to maturation of the immune system

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• Normal microbiota

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• Make vital nutrients available to an ecosystem’s primary producers

Usually plants and algae

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Decomposers

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Generally exploit their natural metabolic capabilities

Manufacturing of food and production of antibiotics, probiotics, drugs, vaccines, starter cultures, insecticides, enzymes, fuels, solvents

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Industrial (food & beverages)

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Cause diseases when the host’s defenses are compromised/ when they grow in part of the body that is not natural to them.

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OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGENS

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MICROBIOLOGY

GENERAL
• Purpose:

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Study & classification of microbes.

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• Pathogens, diseases they cause & the body’s defenses against diseases.

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MEDICAL

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• Spread & control of diseases in animals.

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VETERINARY

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The role is in microbes in plants & livestock.

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AGRICULTURAL

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• Processing & disposal of garbage & sewage waste; purification and processing of water.
SANITARY
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• Production of beer, wine, alcohol, vitamins, antibiotics, etc.
INDUSTRIAL
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• Genetic manipulation
MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY & GENETICS
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• Cycling & recycling of elements by microbial, environmental & geochemical processes
ENVIRONMENTAL
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Scope of microbiology
Medical Microbial physiology & genetics Agricultural Sanitary Environmental Veterinary Industrial
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF MICROBIOLOGY (THE BEGINNING) _______were the first living ancestors of the Earth. For most of human history, people knew little about the true causes, transmission and effective treatment of disease.
Bacterial ancestors
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1665, England, a British scientist One of the earliest scientists to study living things under a microscope
ROBERT HOOKE
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• Observed a thin slice of cork through a crude microscope He was surprised to see what looked like a honeycomb.
ROBERT HOOKE
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• The first time the word "cell" was used to refer to tiny units of light
ROBERT HOOKE
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• 1673-1723, Delft, Holland, a Dutch merchant and Scientist He wrote about the animalcules he saw through his simple single-lens microscopes
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK
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He made detail drawings of organisms he found in the rainwater, feces, and materials scraped from teeth These drawings have been since identified as representations of ***bacteria and protozoa***
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK
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• First to observe ***live microorganisms (animalcules)*** through the magnifying lenses of more than 400 microscopes he constructed.
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK
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Single lens microscope
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK
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Plant & animal life Attempts for categorization of microbes
THE TRANSITION 1700s FOCUS
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• Father of Taxonomy
CAROLUS LINNAEUS
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System of classifying and naming organisms
Taxonomy
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He developed a hierarchical system of classification of nature.
Carolus Linnaeus
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8 taxa dkpcofgs
• Domain • Kingdom • Phylum • Class • Order • Family • Genus • Species
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• He devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all lifeforms.
Carolus Linnaeus
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Genus Species Printed in italics or underlined in script
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
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-> A system of nomenclature in which each species of animal or plant receives a name of two terms of which the first identifies the genus to which it belongs, the second is the species itself.
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
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- The____ is the generic name, whereas the____ is the specific name
genus species
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• Ancient belief about the origin of life that living organisms arise from nonliving matter a "vital force" forms life
THEORY OF ABIOGENESIS
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THEORY OF ABIOGENESIS also known as
The Theory of Spontaneous Generation of Life
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• Scientists have been UNABLE to accomplish this theory with experiments.
Theory of Abiogenesis
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• The Alternative Hypothesis: that living organisms arise from pre-existing life.
THEORY OF BIOGENESIS
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THEORY OF BIOGENESIS Currently accepted theory regarding the origin of a new life (3) experimentally proved this theory.
Louis Pasteur Francesco Redi Lazaro Spallanzani
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THEORY OF BIOGENESIS ______was the proponent of this theory.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW
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: All living things are composed of cells All organisms are made up of one or more____ All the life functions of an organism occur____ All cells come from____
Cell theory cells within cells preexisting cells
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2 German scientists suggested that cells were the ***basic unit of structure and function of all living things***
Theodor Schwann (zoologist) Matthias Jacob Schleiden (botanist)
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In 1858._______ observed that cells divide to produce more cells - he proposed that all cells arise only from other cells.
Rudolf Virchow
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The collective observations of all 3 scientists form the Cell Theory
Theodor Schwann Matthias Jacob Schleiden Rudolf Birchow
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______challenged the case for spontaneous generation with the concept of_____, hypothesizing that living cells arise only from preexisting living cells Since he could offer no scientific proof, arguments about spontaneous generation continued until 1861.
Rudolf Virchow; biogenesis
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French Scientist ______questioned... • Is there a "life force" in air that can cause microbes to develop by spontaneous generation? • Is there a means of allowing air to enter a container but not the bacteria that are present in it?
Sir Louis Pasteur
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-______ prepared a nutrient broth similar to the broth one would use in a soup • He placed equal amounts of broth into two long neck flasks--he left one flash with a straight neck, the other he bent to form an S shape • He boiled the broth in each flask to kill any living matter in the liquid. • The sterile broths were then left to sit at room temperature and exposed to the air in their open mouth flask • After several weeks, he observed that the broth in the straight neck flask was discolored and cloudy, while the broth in the curved neck flask had not changed.
Louis Pasteur
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The conclusion was germs come from other germs and do not spontaneously generate. If spontaneous generation had been a real phenomenon, he argued, broth in the curved neck flask would have actually been infected because the germs would have spontaneously generated.
Louis Pasteur
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THE GOLDEN AGE
1857-1914
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Rapid advances spearheaded by____ and ____ led to the establishment of microbiology. Discoveries included both the agents of many diseases and the role of immunity in preventing and curing disease.
Pasteur and Robert Koch GOLDEN AGE
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PASTEUR'S WORK One of the key steps that established the relationship between microorganisms and disease occured when a group of French merchants asked Pasteur to find out why wine and beer soured. • They hoped to develop a method that would prevent spollage when those beverages were shipped long distances. • At the time, many scientists believed that air converted the sugars in these fluids into alcohols. •_____ are responsible for ... "FERMENTATION." ... and spoilage of food. _______is produced when bacteria ferments ethanol in wine.
Microbes Vinegar (HAc)
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• Spoilage bacteria could be killed through
"PASTEURIZATION”
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________is the process of heating and object (whatever it is) • For example, milk is heated and harmful things are killed and then made safe.
PASTEURIZATION
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is the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence in the giving off of heat.
FERMENTATION
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based on the concept that many diseases are caused by infections where microorganisms typically only visualized under high magnification Such microorganisms can consist of bacterial, viral, fungal, or protist species
Germ theory
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The notion that diseases could be spread by seed-like entities was first described in the 1500s by_____ and were categorized based on how they could be transmitted
Girolamo Frocastoro
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• Later,______ in the early 1800s, conducted a series of experiments which demonstrated that the diseases afflicting silkworms at the time was caused by a FUNGUS.
Agostino Bassi
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theorized the disease in humans and animals was also caused by microorganisms.
Agostino Bassi
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_____work served to influence Louis Pasteur who is accredited with the Germ Theory of Disease following his experiments demonstrating the relationship between microorganisms and disease.
Bassi's
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• In 1865,_____ demonstrated that life did not arise spontaneously from non-living matter, and he discovered that another silkworm disease caused by a protozoan
Louis Pasteur
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• In 1840s,_____ advocated handwashing to prevent spread of puerperal fever
Ignaz Semmelweis
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• 1860s:______ performed surgery under aspetic conditions using phenol He proved that microbes cause surgical wound infections
Joseph Lister
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• 1876,_____ established experimental steps for directly linking a specific microbe to a specific disease.
Robert Koch
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MICROBIAL ETIOLOGY OF IMPORTANT DISEASES ESTABLISHED KOCH:
• Vibrio cholerae = Cholera • Mycobacterium tuberculosis = TB • Bacillus anthracis = Anthrax
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A sequence of experimental steps for directly relating a specific microbe to a specific disease During the past 100 years, this same criteria have been invaluable in [investigations] proving that specific microorganisms cause many diseases
KOCH'S POSTULATE
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Developed in the 19th century,_____ are the four criteria designed to assess whether a microorganism causes a disease
Robert Koch's postulates
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Robert Koch's postulates FOUR CRITERIA
1. The microorganism must be found in the deceased, but not in healthy individuals 2. The microorganism must be cultured from the deceased individual 3. Inoculation of a healthy individual with a cultured microorganism must recapitulate the disease 4. The microorganism must be isolated from the inoculated Deceased individual and match to the original microorganism
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EXCEPTIONS TO KOCH'S POSTULATES
1. Many healthy people carry pathogens but do not exhibit symptoms of the disease. 2. Some microbes are very difficult or impossible to grow on artificial media. 3. To induce a disease from a pure culture, the experimental animal must be susceptible to the pathogen. 4. Certain diseases develop only when an opportunistic pathogen invades a weakened host.
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VACCINATION In 1796:______ inoculated a person with cowpox virus resulting to protection from smallpox.
Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner is considered the_____ in the west, in the year 1796 • He inoculated a 13-year-old boy with a vaccinia virus/cowpox virus and demonstrated immunity in smallpox
Father of Vaccinology
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In_____, the first smallpox vaccine was developed. Over the 18th and 19th centuries, systematic implementation of mass smallpox immunizations culminated in its global eradication in 1979.
1798
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is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in the body
CHEMOTHERAPY
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• It is most often used to treat cancer, since cancer cells grow and multiply more quickly than most cells in the body
CHEMOTHERAPY
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• Many different chemotherapy drugs are available • Chemotherapeutic agents can be (2) •____ (tree bark) = for malaria
synthetic drugs or natural (antibiotics) Quinine
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1910:_____ developed an ***arsenic compound*** commonly known as_____ As a medical student, he speculated about a magic bullet that could hunt down and destroy pathogen without harming the infected host.
Paul Ehrlich Salvarsan or 606
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1928:______ discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, Penicillin: from Penicillum notatum later renamed as____ He almost tossed out some culture plates that had been contaminated by mold. He noticed a pattern of growth of the mold
Alexander Fleming; Penicillum chrysogenum
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1930s:_____ were synthesized. 1940s:_____ was tested clinically & mass produced.
Sulfonamides Penicillin
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MODERN DEVELOPMENTS Microorganisms can now be genetically modified to manufacture large amounts of human hormones and other urgently needed medical substances. In the 1960s,______ showed that fragments of Human/Animal DNA / genes that called for important proteins can be attached to bacterial DNA.
Paul Berg
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-> technology inserts recombinant DNA into bacteria or other microbes to make large quantities of the desired protein
Recombinant DNA/ rDNA
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Recombinant DNA/ rDNA • This field combines elements from two other areas of study, including 1. ________which studies mechanism by which microorganisms inherit traits 2.________ which looks at how genetic information is carried in molecules of DNA and how DNA directs the synthesis of proteins.
Microbial genetics Molecular biology
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- bacteria once classified as plants
Flora, microflora
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- new name They prevent growth of pathogens. They produce growth factors (folic acid), vit. K and some B vitamins
• Normal Microbiota
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- ability to ward off diseases factors: skin, stomach acid, antimicrobial chemicals.
Resistance
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- when a pathogen overcomes the host's resistance, disease results
• Infectious Disease
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These are diseases that are new or changing and are increasing or have the potential to increase in incidence in the near future.
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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- first appeared in China in 2002 • Viral infection caused by…
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) SARS associated Coronavirus (SARS CoV)
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A.k.a "_____" Caused by influenza H1N1 First detected in the United States in 2009 and the same year, the WHO the H1N1 flu to be a pandemic disease
H1N1 influenza (flu) Swine flu
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• 2003, killed millions of poultry and 24 people in Southeast Asia These occur in birds worldwide In 2013, H7N9 sickened 131 people in China.
Avian influenza A (H5N1), or bird flu
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“Micrographia” Compound microscope and its uses
Robert Hooke
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Thin slice of cork showed “little boxes” or cells; history of cell biology; “all living things are composed of cells.”
Robert Hooke
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“Micrographia”
Robert Hooke
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Thin slice of cork showed “little boxes” or cells; history of cell biology; “all living things are composed of cells.”
Robert Hooke
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Single lens microscope
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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(Swedish botanist) Binomial nomenclature (“Systema Naturae”, 1735) : the genus (plural: genera) & specific epithet.
Carolus Linnaeus
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(an Italian physician; 1668) 1st real experiment to dispute abiogenesis
Francesco Redi
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Francesco Redi
Sealed jars, covered jars, covered withy net Maggots
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Evidence: Pro abiogenesis ◼ put boiled nutrient broth into covered flasks.
John Needham (1745-1748)
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CONDITIONS Nutrient broth heated, cooled then placed in sealed flask RESULTS Microbial growth
John Needham
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Evidence: Pro biogenesis Covered flask and heated No microbial growth
Lazzaro Spallanzani (1765)
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Nutrient broth placed in long necked-flasks, then heated No microbial growth There is no such life force in air, and organisms do not arise by spontaneous generation .
Louis Pasteur
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Golden age of microbiology
Pasteur’s work Germ theory of disease Vaccination Antimicrobial drugs
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Pasteur’s work Microbes are responsible for
FERMENTATION and spoilage of food
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Diseases were thought to be caused by: ❑ demons, evil spirits, the wrath of God ….. Hard for people to believe that diseases were caused by microbes
The Germ Theory of Disease
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proposed the use of immunology to ID bacteria according to serotypes (variants within a species).
Rebecca Lancefield (1933)
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introduced Recombinant DNA
Paul Berg (1960s)
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT: Microbes and Human Welfare Modern Biotechnology
Genetic engineering Gene therapy GMOs
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Degradation of organic matter in sewage & detoxify pollutants. Nitrosomonas europaea Nitrobacter hamburgensis
Bioremediation
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Biological Insecticides
Bacillus thuringiensis