Introduction Flashcards
(17 cards)
What did Van Leewenhoek discover
-father of microbiology
-discovered protists and bacteria
-using made microscope
What did Edwards Jenner do?
Hand in immunisation and vaccinations
What did Louis Pasteur do
-questioned are infectious diseases living?
-pasteurisation and fermentation
What did Robert Koch do?
-discovered many disease causing microbes (tuberculosis, cholera)
-Koch’s postulates (does it cause a disease)
What did Dmitiri Ivanosky do?
-discovered viruses
What did Alexander Fleming do?
-discovery of penicillin
Miasma theory
Diseases were caused by poison, foul smelling air called a miasma
Blood generation theory
Spontaneous generation of blood
Germ theory
-Infection was cause by organisms in the air - not the other way around (miasma)
-Louis Pasteur and swan neck flask
What are classed as parasites
Helminths and protists
What are protists
-not plant, animal or fungi
-eukaryotic
-many parasitic but not all
What are helminths
-parasitic worms
-invertebrates
Parasitic meaning
Benefits at expense of the host
Pathogen definition
Causes a disease in the host
Commensal definition
No effect on host
Mutualists definition
Benefit the host
Disease definition
A disorder of function or structure
