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humans and the microbial world

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1676   antony van leeuwenhoek observed bacteria and protozoa using first microscope  
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1796   edward jenner intr a vaccination procedure for smallpox, injected son  
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1838-1839   mathias schleden and theodor schwann proposed that all organisms are composed of cells  
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1847-1850   ignaz semmelwels demonstrated that puerperal or dhildbed fever is contagious dz transmitted by physicians to their patients during childbirth (wash hands)  
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1853-1854   john snow demonstrated epidemic spread of cholera thru water supply contaiminated with human sewage  
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1822-1895   louis pasteur demonstrated that yeast can degrade sugar to ethanol  
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1822-1895   pasteur publishes experiment that refutes theory of spontaneuous generation  
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1822-1895   develops pasteurization as a method to destroy unwanted organisms in wine  
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1827-1912   joseph lister and antiseptics  
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joseph lister   father of antiseptic surgery  
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1843-1910   robert koch demonstrates that anthrax is caused by bacterium  
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1843-1910   koch introduces use of pure culture techniquies for handling bacteria in lab  
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1843-1910   koch indentifies causative agent of tuberculosis  
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1843-1910   koch states koch's postulates  
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pure culture   only one organism  
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1845-1916   elie metchnikoff discovers phagocytes and their role inengulfing bacteria  
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1908   paul ehrlich started chemo to treat dz  
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1928   fredrick griffith discovered genetic transformation in bacteria  
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1929   alexander fleming discovers and describes properties of the first antibiotic  
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first antibiotic   penicillin  
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1944   oswald avery, colin macleod, and maclyn mccarty demonstrated that griffiths transforming principle is DNA  
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1944   joshua lederberg and edward tarum demonstrated that DNA can be transferred from one bacterium to another  
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conjugation   process of genetic recombination between 2 organisms (bacteria or protists) via cytoplasmic bridge between them  
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1953   james watson, francis crick, rosalind franklin, and maurice wilkins determine structure of DNA  
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microbiology   study of organisms too small to be seen with human eye  
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microbiology born as science   1674  
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anthony van leeuwenhoek   dutch drapery merchant, ground lens to view fabric, peer into drop of lake water  
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animalcules   van leeuwenhoek called organisms this  
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spontaneous generation   organisms arise from nonliving matter  
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franscesco redi   italian biologist, physician, worms on rotting meat from flies, not spontaneous  
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louis pasteur   father of modern microbiology, air filled with microorganisms  
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swan neck flask   pasteur used to show air filled with microbes  
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john tyndall   concluded different infusions required different boiling times, some 5 min. others 5 hours  
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endospore   heat resistant life form  
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ferdinand cohn   discovered endospores  
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organisms responsible   for production of oxygen and nitrogen, key elements for all living organisms  
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microorganisms   decomposers, responsible for breakdown of variety of material  
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probiotics   bacteria used to protect against intestinal infection & bowel cancer, good flora  
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fermentationof milk   used to produce yogurt, cheese, buttermilk  
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bioremediation   use organisms to degrade environmental waste, clean oil spills, radioactive waste, etc.  
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bacteria can synthesize   ethanol, pesticides, antibiotics, dietary amino acids  
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genetic engineering   introduce genes of one organism into an unrelated organism to confer new properties on organism  
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genetic engineering used to   produce medically important products an dvaccines, engineer plants to resist dz, gene therapy  
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1854-1914   golden age of microbiology  
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b/w 1875-1918   most dz causing bacteria discovered  
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toxic shock syndrome   from tampons, disc in 1980's, high fever and low BP and rash are symptons  
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Legionnaires’ disease   disc. 1976, when many people who went to a Philadelphia convention of the American Legion suffered from an outbreak of this disease, a type of pneumonia  
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lyme dz   caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged ticks, symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and rash  
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west nile dz   disc in 1999, symptoms are fever, headache, body aches, skin rash or swollen lymph glands  
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SARS   caused by a coronavirus, pneumonia like symptoms  
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factors associated with emergine diseases   changing lifestyles and genetic changes in organisms  
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resurgence of old dz   often more serious, resistant to treatment  
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reasons for resurgence   increase travel, unvaccinated indiv susceptible to infection  
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chronic diseases caused by   bacteria  
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gastric ulcers caused by   helicobacter pylori  
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pathogen   dz causing bacteria  
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bacteria outnumber cells in body   10:1  
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domains   bacteria, archaea, eucarya, 3 domiains, but only 2 cell types  
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prokaryotes   unicellular, incl bacter adn archaea  
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eucarya   uni and multicellular  
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microbial world   living orgainsms and non living agents  
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protozoa   proteins, unicellular only  
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prokaryote   no membrance bound organelles  
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eukaryotes   have membrane bound organelles  
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bacteria and archaea   single celled organisms, no membrane bound nucleus, no other organelles  
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cytoplasm of prokaryotes   surrounded by rigid cell wall  
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eucarya   contain membrane bound nucleus, contain internal organelles, single or nulticellular, ex. mitochondria  
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domain bacteria   most common type in human infection  
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bacteria characteristics   rod-shaped, spherical and spiral; rigid cell walls  
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bacteria characteristics   multiply by binary fission, 1into2, 2into4, each cell identical to first, motile by flagella  
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domain archaea   rod shaped, sperhical, spiral, binary fission, motile by flagellum  
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archaea   chem composition of cell wall differ, found in extreme environments, extreme temps and high concentration of salts  
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domain eucarya   eukaryotic, composed of single cell eucarya-algae fungi, protozoa  
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algae   single and multicell organisms, contain chlorophyll, found near surface waters, rigid cell wall  
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chlorophyll   pigments used to absorb light to be used as energy source  
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fungi   single and multicellular, gain energy from organic materials, found on land, live off dead saprophytes  
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yeast   single cell fungi  
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molds   multi cell fungi  
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protozoa   microscopic, single celled, found in water and land, larger than prokaryote  
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protozoa   doesn't have rigid cell wall, energy from organic matter, motile, cilia, flagella, pseudopod  
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helminths   claled parasites, include round worms and tapeworms  
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strain   members of same pspecies may differ from one another in minor ways, ie. E. coli B or E.coli K12  
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binomial namein system   first word is genus, second species; first word capitalized, full name italicized  
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virus, viroids, prions   non-living, called agents, consis of few molecules found in living cells  
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virus   contain protein coat surrounding nucleic acid, protein bag of nucleic acid  
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virus termed obligate intracellular parasites   must have host to replicate, inactive outside of host  
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virus   all forms can be infected by virus, frequently kill host cells, some live with host  
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viroids   simpler than viruses, require host cell for replication, consist of single short piece of RNA, no protective protein coat  
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viroids   smaller than viruses, cause plant dz, no DNA genome, only RNA  
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prions   infectious proteins, no DNA or RNA  
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prions   responsible for six neurodegerative dz, animal-scrapie in sheep, mad cow; human-kuru, creutzfelt-jakob  
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