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Rickettsiae
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| Minute living body not perceptible to the naked eye. |
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| Blocks the effect of the virus. |
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| Bacteria shaped like spirals. |
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| Bacteria that resides in your normal healthy tissue |
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| When you get an infection in the hospital. |
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| the study of microoganisms |
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| any disease induced by a fungus |
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| the science of structure and form |
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| a disease-causing microorganism |
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| relative power of a pathogen to cause disease |
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| cable of growing in absence of organic compounds; self-nourishing |
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| requiring orghanic compounds to live and grow |
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| microorganism; requires oxygen to ive |
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| microorganism does not require oxygen to live |
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| compulsory, must have oxygen to live |
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| an organism living on decaying or dead organic matter |
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| a method of asexual reproduction in which the cell divides into two parts |
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| small round bodies found in cells affected by a virus |
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| a virus that attacks bacteria |
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| a hairlike motile process on the extremity of a bacterium or a protozoan |
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| bacteria that normally reside in the tissue of healthy individuals |
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| disease causing microorganism |
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| are an inactive dormant form of bacteria |
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| what is a hospital acquired infection? |
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| bacterial bi-product that released after an organism has died is |
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| slightly alkaline structure |
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| most bacteria prefer an environment that is a |
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| when a surface is completely free of all microoganism including spores |
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| microorganism that borrow from the host cell is |
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| one organism produces substances or causes conditions which are lethal for other organisms |
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| each organism derives a benefit from the other |
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| sphere like bacteria that's arranged in long chains |
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| structure that increases the virulence of a bacteria |
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| is an example of an exotoxin |
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| are liberated only when the bacterial cell dies and disintegrates |
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| most post-operative wound infection |
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| strep throat, scarlet fever |
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| escherichia coli (e.coli) |
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| are much smaller than bacterian but larger than viruses |
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| rickettsiae are much smaller than bacteria but larger than |
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| are commonly called worms |
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| viruses are the smallest organism known; can only be seen with the aid of ______microscope |
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| viruses of human beings and animals are generally ______ |
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| viruses of plants are _____ |
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| viruses have ___metabolic functions of their own |
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| _______are found in host cells that have been affected by a virus |
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| interferon ______the effect of the virus |
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| by both direct and indirect |
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| viruses are transmitted _________contact |
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| list two dermotrophic viruses |
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| influenza and common cold |
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| list two pneumotrophic viruses |
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| list two neurotrophic viruses |
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| list two viscerotrophic viruses |
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| list two immunotrophic viruses |
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| longer, rigid, curved organism, usually with several spirals and several flagella |
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