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Introduction to Microbiology

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who developed the Petri dish which microbial cultures bould be grown and manipulated Richard J Petri
who developed the sue of agar as a solidifying agent for microbiological media Fanny Hesse
Date for the golden aga of microbiology from 1857 to 1914
the father of microbiology Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Van Leeuwenhoek belived in abiogenesis aka spontaneous generation
who began sterilizing surgical instruments and dressing wounds with carbolic acid Joseph Lister and English surgeon
who began using antiseptic procedures to prevent childbirth or puerperal fever Ignaz Philip Semmelweis
who provided direct evidence that bacteria were etiological agents Robert Koch a German physician
s sequence of experimental steps to demonstrate specific types of microorganism responsible for a specific disease (Robert) Koch's postulates
Stain technique that could be used to separate 2 groups of disease causing bacteria (Hans Christian Gram) Gram stain
the science or study of microscopic organism too small to observed with the naked eye microbiology
Bio= + logy= life and science
logos= study of
microorganisms aka microbes
eukaryotic cell types are protozoa, algae, fungi, multicellullar parasites and human cells
prokaryotic cell types are bacteria and archaea
non cellular types viruses, viroids, prions
who was the first to document his findings and who did he send them to Anton van Leeuwenhoek and the Royal Society of London
belief the living organisms arose spontaneously from non living material abiogenesis or spontaneouse generation
A= and genesis= without and beginnings
demonstrated tha spontaneouse generation did not occur at macroscopic level by using flies Francesco Redi
who boiled broth in flasks seald with glass Lazzaro Spallanzani
who had been hired by French distillers to determine why fermentation somethimes turned sour instead of brewing (ethanol) Louis Pasteur
heating to a specific temperature by killing most cells present Pasteurization
who showed that if you filter air with a gun cottom microorganisms would be collected on the cotton louis Pasteur
by boiling and cooling broth over days to eliminate spore forming organisms (heat resistant enospores) tyndallization
tyndalliaztion is names after John Tyndall
who suggested that disease was due to organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye Girolamo Fracastoro
who reasoned that surgical infection (sepsis) might be caused by microorganisms Joseph Lister
a process that inclueded hand washing, sterilizing instruments and dressing wounds with carbolic acid (phenol) is called antiseptic
condition resulting from the presence of pahtogenic microbes in blood or tissues Sepsis
who developed the first pure cultures of microbes Joseph Lister
disease causing agents etiological agents
causative agent Koch was working with animals with anthrax disease Bacillus anthracis
methood used to prevent disease immunization
who developed the technique of caccination Edward Jenner
who prevented small pox by using fluid from cow pox patients Edward Jenner
who concluded that bacteria that were killed could be used to prevent disease and what is this called louis Pasteur called the cultures vaccines
attenuated means weakened
a agent to be used to cure disease inside the body without harming the patient a magic bullet
who searched for a magic bullet and developed the first effective cure for bacterial disease Paul Ehrilch
an arsenic compound that was effective against syphilis salvarsan developed by Paul Ehrlich
who discovered penicillin Alexander Fleming
who believed there was a vital force present when he boiled his broth in cork stoppered flasks John Needham
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