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