Introduction slides

Question 1

What is the study of living things that are unable to be seen by the naked eye?

Answer 1

Microbiology

Question 2

What are spore forming microbes?

Answer 2

Fungi

Question 3

Give 2 examples of parasites

Answer 3

Helminths

Protozoa

Question 4

True or False: viruses are considered non-life

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What is a misfolded protein infection that is responsible for mad cow disease?

Answer 5

Prions

Question 6

History: in 1665 who First used microscope to describe “cells” in cork?

Answer 6

Robert Hooke

Question 7

Who is the famous microbiologist who said “My excrement being so thin, I was at divers time persuaded to examine it….I have sometimes seen animalcules a-moving
prettily” ?

Answer 7

Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 8

When was the electron microscope discovered?

Answer 8

1940

Question 9

Who is the microbiologist that proves biogenesis?

Answer 9

Louis Pasteur

Question 10

What experiment was Louis Pasteur famous for in discovering life comes from life?

Answer 10

Swan glass experiment

Question 11

What did Dimitri Iwanoski discover in 1892?

Answer 11

First viral disease in tobacco leaves

Question 12

Who discovered the germ theory of disease —- that microbes can also cause disease in 1876?

Answer 12

Robert Koch

Question 13

Who discovered vaccination in 1796?

Answer 13

Edward Jenner

Question 14

What was the disease that vaccination successfully eradicated?

Answer 14

Smallpox

Question 15

Who first instigated that handwashing is important in infection control? He Observed maternal infection deaths related
to clinicians attending with unwashed hands

Answer 15

Ignaz Semmelweis - discovered asepsis technique

Question 16

Who further studied asepsis technique in the medical field: Principle – stop contaminating microbes gaining entry and causing infection

Answer 16

Lister and Semmelweis

Question 17

Who discovered antibiotics in 1928?

Answer 17

Alexander Flemming

Question 18

Who developed penicillin in 1944?

Answer 18

Howard Florey and Ernest Chain

Question 19

Give 4 success or achievements in microbiology

Answer 19

• Smallpox eradicated
  – Polio eradicated in developed world – Treatment of bacterial infections
  – Genetic engineered products

Question 20

Give 4 challenges in microbiology

Answer 20

• Antibiotic resistance: MRSA, VRE
• New emerging pathogens: HIV, BLV, melioidosis, SARSV, H7N9, Sars-cov-2
  – Old re-emerging pathogens: MDR / XDR-TB
  – Developing world / social determinants of health