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| Lab technique to identify bacteria, which consists of staining the bacteria, then rinsing with a micture of acid and alcohol |
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| Microorganism that requires oxygen to live |
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| Microorganism that lives without oxygen |
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| capable of growing in absence of organic compounds; self-nourishing |
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| Virus that attacks bacteria |
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| Method of asexual reproduction in which the cells divides into two parts |
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| Method of asexual reproduction in which a budlike process grows from the side or end of the parent and develops into a new organism |
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| Tissue sampling, washing or swabbing, grown in a media or aerobe or anaerobe conditions |
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| Having the capability to live under certain environmental circumstances, but living under those circumstances is not compulsory |
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| Hairlike, motile process on the extremity of a bacterium or protozoan |
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| lab technique to identify bacteria, stained with a violet (positive) stain, than counterstained with a red (negative) stain |
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| Requiring organic compounds to live and grow |
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| Small, round bodies found in cells affected by a virus |
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| Microorganism that requires oxygen, but thrives best when oxygen is less than that in the atmosphere |
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| Minute living body not perceptible to the naked eye |
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| Science of structure and form |
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| Any disease induced by a fungus |
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| Microscopic plant life such as bacteria which are adapted to residing in a given area of the body during health |
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| Infection acquired in the hospital |
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| Compulsory, must occupy a certain niche or act a certain way. Must have oxygen to live |
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| Opportunistic Microorganism |
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| Microorganism which causes infection when given the opportunity by the altered physiological state of the host |
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| Organism that lives within, upon or at the expense of another living organism known as the host |
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| Disease causing microorganism |
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| Resistance-transfer factor |
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| Genetic factor that makes it possible for some bacteria to become resistant to certain antibiotics |
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| Organism living on decaying or dead organic matter |
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| Relative power of a pathogen to cause disease |
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| What are the major classes of microorganisms? |
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| Viruses, Rickettsiae, Fungi, Protozoa, Bacteria |
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| One organism produces substances or causes conditions which are lethal for other organisms |
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| Each derives benefits from each other |
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| One organism derives benefit from another organism, at the others expense |
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| Two different kinds of organisms living independently without affecting the other |
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| One organism receives benefit from another organism, but causes it no harm |
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| close relationship between two microbes |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
Are multicellular |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
Are simple forms of plant life |
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| False, Are simple forms of animal life |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
Are microscopic |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
Take their food in solid particles |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
Are nonmotile |
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| False, Are motile by Pseudopods, flagella, cillia |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
Reproduce sexually or asexually by fission |
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(T or F concerning Protozoa)
When subjected to adverse conditions, they become very active |
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| False, When subjected to adverse conditions, they become inactive and go into a cyst formation and become dormant |
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(Protozoan Disease, cause and characteristics)
Transmitted by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito or by a contaminated hypodermic needle or blood transfusion |
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(Protozoan Disease, cause and characteristics)
Caused by Entamoeba histolytica |
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(Protozoan Disease, cause and characteristics)
Characterized in women by vaginitis with a profuse, cream-colored, foul-smelling discharge |
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(Protozoan Disease, cause and characteristics)
Transmitted by sexual intercourse, contaminated douche equipment, contaminated examination instruments, and contaminated towels |
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| (Protozoan Disease, cause and characteristics)Characterized by chilles and fever |
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(Protozoan Diseases cause and characteristics)
Occurs following fecal contamination of food or drink |
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(Protozoan Diseases cause and characteristics)
Symptoms are intense diarrhea with bloody, mucous-filled stools |
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(Protozoan Diseases cause and characteristics)
Caused by a parasite of the Plasmodium genus (several species) |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Include yeasts and molds |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Are in the animal kingdom |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Containg chlorophyll |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Contain over 100,000 species |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Some are a common sight on stale bread, rotten fruit, or damp leather |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Exist as parasites or saprophytes |
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(T or F, Fungi Characteristics)
Most medically important fungi are visible to the naked eye |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Are characterized by a fuzzy growth of interlacing filaments called hyphae |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Reproduce by spores |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Reproduce by budding |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Some may be seen on foods such as bread and cheese |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Some are used commercially in preparing beer, wine, and breads |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Are univellular, microscopic organisms |
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(Mold or Yeast)
Are multicellular |
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(Mold or Yeast)
A common mycosis of this is caused by Candida albicans |
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(Mold or Yeast)
A common mycosis of this is caused by Tinea capitis |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Are multicellular |
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| (T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)Are complex, animal organisms |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Ordinarily do not contain chlorophyll |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Have approximately 150 known species and are found only on food |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Only about 100 species produyce disease in human beings |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Are classified as pathogenic or nonpathogenic |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Pathefenic bacteria are essential for life and aid in production of some foods and chemicals such as cheeses, sauerkraut, cultured milk products, and lactic acid |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Reproduce asexually by budding |
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(T or F, Characteristics of Bacteria)
Have no cell wall |
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Diffuse out of the intact bacterial cells into the surrounding medium or tissue |
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Are liberated only when the bacterial cell dies and disintegrates |
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Examples are organism which cause typhoid fever and bacillary dysentery |
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Examples are organisms which cause typhoid fever, gas gangrene, diptheria, and scarlet fever |
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Are the most potent toxins known |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
All bacteria must have some oxygen to live |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Moisture delays growth |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Autotrophic bacteria use carbon dioxide and other inorganic compounds for food and are nonpathogenic |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Heterotrophic bacteria require living or dead organic matter for food and are pathogenic |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Parasites utilize dead organic matter for food |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Saprophytes utilize living organic matter for food |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
High heat destroys most bacteria |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Most bacteria grow best close to the neutral point on the pH scale or slightly on the alkaline side |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Acids do not affect the growth of bacteria |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Most bacteria flourish in the direct sunlight |
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(T or F, Bacteria growth)
Spores are killed by sunlight |
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| Mrcobacterium tuberculosis |
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(Rickettsiae)
Are much smaller than bacteria, but larger than _____ |
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(Rickettsiae)
Are _____ (can only grow inside living cells) |
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(Rickettsiae)
Are transmitted to human beings by _____ |
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(Rickettsiae)
Rickettsia ricketsii (tick-borne) causes _____ |
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(T or F, Helminths (worms))
Are unicellular |
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(T or F, Helminths (worms))
Are plant parasites |
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(T or F, Helminths (worms))
Are animal parasites |
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(T or F, Helminths (worms))
Are commonly called worms |
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(T or F, Helminths (worms))
Are transmitted through fecal contamination or by eating some undercooked meats such as pork |
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(Viruses)
Smallest organism known; can only be seen with the aid of (an electron, a simple, a compound) microscope |
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(Viruses)
Are very (complex, simple) |
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(Viruses)
Are (saprophytes, parasites) |
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(Viruses)
Viruses of human beings and animals are generally (rod-shaped, spherical in shape) |
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(Viruses)
Viruses of plants are (rod-shaped, spherical in shape) |
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(Viruses)
Viruses have (many, no) metabolic functions of their own |
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(Viruses)
(Bacteriophage, Inclusion bodies) are found in host cells that have been affected by a virus |
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(Viruses)
Interferon (increases, blocks) the effect of the virus |
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(Viruses)
Viruses are transmitted (only by direct, only by inderect, by both direct and indirect) contact |
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(Type of viral disease)
Dermotrophic Viruses |
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(Type of viral disease)
Pneumotrophic Viruses |
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(Type of viral disease)
Neurotrophic Viruses |
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(Type of viral disease)
Viscerotrophic Viruses |
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(Type of viral disease)
Immunotrophic |
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(Y or N, Hepatitis)
Chemically-induced hepatitis could be caused by alcohol |
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(Y or N, Hepatitis)
All hepatitis is contagious |
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(Y or N, Hepatitis)
Presently five hepatrophic viruses can cause hepatitis - HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV |
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(AIDS)
AIDS is caused by (HIV, HBV) |
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| (AIDS)Patients infected with the virus may be asymptomatic for many )days, weeks, years) before they are diagnosed with AIDS |
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(AIDS)
As the virus weakens the infected person's (circulatory, immune) system, various opportunistic infections, malignancies, or neurological diseases can occur |
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(AIDS)
Evidence of (Kaposo's sarcoma, Louis-Bar syndrome) indicates a diagnosis of AIDS |
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(AIDS)
AIDS is (fatal, curable) |
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