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Acid Fast
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Aerobe
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Anaerobe
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Autotrophic
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Bacteriology
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Bacteriophage
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Binary Fusion
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Budding
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Culture
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Facultative
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Flagellum
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Gram Stain
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Heterotrophic
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Inclusion Bodies
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Microaerophilic
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Microbiology
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Microorganism
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Morphology
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Mycology
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Mycosis
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Normal Flora
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Nosocomial Infection
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Obligate
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Opportunistic Microorganism
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Parasite
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Parasitology
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Pathogen
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Resistance-transfer factor
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Saprophyte
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Virology
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Virulence
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Cocci
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Spirillae
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Viruses
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Ricjettsiae
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Fungi
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Bacilli
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Protozoa
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Molds
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Bacteria
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Anaerobes
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(Y or N; Major Class of Microorganism)
Clostridium
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Antibiosis
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Mutualism
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Parasitism
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Independence
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Commensalism
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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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(T or F; Concerning Protozoa)
Are microscopic
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(T or F; Concerning Protozoa)
Take thier food in solid particles
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(T or F; Concerning Protozoa)
Are motile
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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 adcerse conditions, they become very active
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Transmitted by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito or by a contaminated hypodermic needle or blood transfusion
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Caused by Entameoba histolytica
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Characterized in women by vaginitis with a profuse, cream-colored, foul-smelling discharge
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Transmitted by sexual intercourse, contaminated douche equipment, contaminated examination instruments, and contaminated towels
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Characterized by chills and fever
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Occurs following fecal contamination of food or drink
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Symptoms are intense diarrhea with bloody, mucous-filled stools
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(Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, or Trichomonas Infection)
Caused by a parasite of the Plasmodium genus (several species)
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Include yeasts and molds
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Are in the animal kingdon
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Contain chlorophyll
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Contain over 100,000 species
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Some are a common sight on stale bread, rotten fruit, or damp leather
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Exist as parasites or saprophytes
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(Characteristics of fungi)
Most medically important fungie are visible to the naked eye
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(Yeast or Mold)
Are characterized by a fuzzy growth of interlacing filaments called hyphae
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(Yeast or Mold)
Reproduce by spores
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(Yeast or Mold)
Reproduce by budding
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(Yeast or Mold)
Some may be seen on foods such as bread and cheese
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(Yeast or Mold)
Some are used commercially in preparing beer, wine, and breads
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(Yeast or Mold)
Are unicellular, microscopic organisms
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(Yeast or Mold)
Are multicellular
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(Yeast or Mold)
A common mycosis of this is caused by Candid albicans
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(Yeast or Mold)
A common mycosis of this is caused by Tinea Capitis
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Are multicellular
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Are complex, animal organisms
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Ordinarily do not contain chlorophyll
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Have approximately 150 known species and are found only on food
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Only about 100 species produce disease in human beings
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Are classified as pathogenic or nonpathogenic
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Pathogenic 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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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Reproduce asexually by budding
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(Characteristics of Bacteria)
Have no cell wall
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Vibrio
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Diplococci
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Staphylococci
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Spirochete
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Diplobacilli
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Streptobacilli
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Spirillum
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Streptococci
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Flagella
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Spores
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Capsules
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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 organisms which cause typhoid fever and bacillary dysentery
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Examples are organisms causing tetanus, gas gangrene, diptheria, and scarlet fever
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(Endotoxins or Exotoxins)
Are the most potent toxins known
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
All bacteria must have some oxygen to live
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Moisture delays growth
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Autotrophic bacteria use carbon dioxide and other inorganic compounds for food and are nonpathogenix
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Heterotrophic bactera require living or dead organic matter for food and are pathogenic
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Parasites utilize dead organic matter for food
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Saprophytes utilize living organic matter for food
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
High heat destroys most bacteria
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Most bacteria grow best close to the neutral point on the pH scale of slightly on the alkaline side
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Acids do not affect the growth of bacteria
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Most bacteria flourish in direct sunlight
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(Y or N, Growth requirements of bacteria)
Spores are killed by sunlight
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Bordetella pertussis
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Clostridium botulinum
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Clostridium perfringens
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Clostridium tetani
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escherichia coli
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mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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Neisseria meningitis
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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salmonella typhi
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shigella dysenteriae
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staphylococcus aureus
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streptococcus pyogenes
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treponema pallidum
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vibrio cholerae
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(Characteristics of Rickettsiae)
Are much smaller than bacteria, but larger than ______
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(Characteristics of Rickettsiae)
Are _____ (can only grow inside living cells
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(Characteristics of Rickettsiae)
Are transmitted to human beings by _____
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(Characteristics of Rickettsiae)
Rickettsia ricketsii (tick-borne) causes _____
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(Y or N, Characteristics or Helminths)
Are unicellular
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(Y or N, Characteristics or Helminths)
Are plant parasites
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(Y or N, Characteristics or Helminths)
Are animal parasites
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(Y or N, Characteristics or Helminths)
Are commonly called worms
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(Y or N, Characteristics or Helminths)
Are transmitted through fecal contamination or by eating some uncooked meats such as pork
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Smallest organism known; can only be seen with the aid of (an electron, a simple, a compound) microscope
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Are very (complex,simple)
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Are (saprophytes, parasites)
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Viruses of plants are (rod-shaped, spherical in shape)
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Viruses have (many, no) metabolic functions of their own
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
(Bacteriophages, Inclusion bodies) are found in host cells that have been affected by a virus
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Interferon (increases, blocks) the effect of the virus
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(Characteristics of Viruses)
Viruses are transmitted (only by direct, only by indirect, by both birect and indirect) contact.
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(List of Viral Diseases by type)
Dermotrophic Viruses
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(List of Viral Diseases by type)
Pneumotrophic viruses
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(List of Viral Diseases by type)
Neurotrophic viruses
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(List of Viral Diseases by type)
Viscerotrophic Viruses
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(T or F, Types of hepatitis)
Chemically-induced hepatitis could be caused by alcohol
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(Types of hepatitis)
All hepatitis in contagious
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(Types of hepatitis)
Presently five hepatotrophic viruses can cause hepatitis - HAV-HEV
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(Characteristics of AIDS)
AIDS is caused by (HIV, HBV)
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(Characteristics of AIDS)
Patients infected with the virus may be asymptomatic for many (days, weeks, years) before they are diagnosed with AIDS
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(Characteristics of 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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(Characteristics of AIDS)
Evidence of (Kaposi's sarcoma, Louis-Bar syndrome)indicate a diagnosis of AIDS
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(Characteristics of AIDS)
AIDS is (fatal, curable)
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