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What is the time where there is no growth and the cells are adjusting to the environment?
lag phase
What is the period of time where the culture will grow exponentially because every cell is capable of diffusion?
log phase
What is the period of time where new cell growh = cell death?
stationary phase
What is the period of time that can last for a long period of time and when the culture cells begins to die all will die?
death phase
If an endospore were to grow what is the time when it would grow?
stationary phase
What is the name for the lowest temperature?
minimum temperature
What is the name for the highest temperature?
maximum temperature
What is the name for the best temperature?
optimum temperature
What is the name for all three temperatures?
cardinal growth temperature
What is most effected by temperature changes?
membranes and proteins/enzymes
What happenes to enzymes when there is too high of a temperature?
denaturation
What are the 4 categories for bacteria to be placed in based on optimum temperature?
psychrophiles, mesophiles, thermophiles, hyperthermophiles
What bacteria grow below room temperature?
psychrophile
What bacteria grow at toom temperature to slighly above body temperature?
mesophile
What bacteria grow in hot places?
thermophiles
What bacteria grow in very hot places?
hyperthermophiles
What is the name for the zone between 20 and 50* C?
Danger Zone
What is the measure of hydrogen concentration in an environment?
pH
What are most effected in the optimum change of pH?
enzymes
What are the three categories to place bacteria in that has to do with pH?
acidophiles, neutrophiles, alkaphiles
What is the category of pH where the optimum is 0 - 5.5?
acidophiles
What is the category of pH where the optimum is 6-8?
neutrophiles
What is the category of pH where the optimum is 9-14?
alkaphiles
What is the internal pH of the acidophiles and alkaphiles?
around 7
If the internal pH is not around 7 what is going to happen to the enzymes?
denature
What are the 5 categories that bacteria can placed in based on oxygen concentration?
obligate aerobes, obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, aerotolerant anaerobes, microaerophiles
What category of bacteria require oxygen?
obligate aerobes
Where is the growth in the test tube if it is an obligate bacteria?
on the top
The obligate aerobes like what kind of environment?
oxic area
What category of bacteria require no oxygen?
obligate anaerobes
Where will growth occur in a test tube if it is a obligate anaerboe?
on the bottom
What kind of area do obligate anaerobes like?
anoxic area
What kind of bacteria can grow at any level of oxygen but will grow better if oxygen is present?
facultative anaerobes
Where is the growth in a test tube if it is a facultatve anaerobe?
growth throughout, but more on top
What type of bacteria can grow at any level of oxygen, but don't use it?
aerotolerant anaerobes
Where is the growth in the tube if it is a aerotolerant anaerobes?
throughout the tube
What type of bacteria need oxygen, but less than atmospheric pressure to grow?
mircoaerophiles
Where is the growth in the tube if it is a microaerophile?
just below the surface
What are the categories that bacteria can be placed in based on how much osmotic stress they can handle?
nonhalophiles, halotolerant, halophiles, extreme halophiles
What bacteria can't tolerate omsotic stress?
nonhalophiles
What bacteria will grow best under no osmotic stress, but is capable of tolerating a little bit of osmotic stress?
halotolerant
What is an example of a halotolerant?
Staphlycoccus aureus
What bacteria can grow with no somotic stress, but grows better with a little osmotic stress?
halophiles
What bacteria can not grow unless there is osmotic stress?
extreme halophiles
What is the diffusion of water?
osmosis
What is the name for available water?
water activity
What is the name for when the water activity is equal and water moves back and forth just in an equal fashion?
isotonic
What is the name for when water will move out of the cell because there is higher water activity inside the cell?
hypertonic
What happens to the cell in a hypertonic solution?
shrink
What is another name for shrink?
plasmolysis
What is the name for when the water will move into the cell and there is lower water activity inside the cell?
hypotonic
What happens to the cell in a hypotonic solution?
nothing
What type of environment do bacterium prefer?
hypotonic
What is the term for pushing against the cell wall?
turger pressure
What is responsible for balancing out how much solute is outside the cell and what bacterial cells use when living in a salty environment?
osmoprotectants
What are important features of osmoprotectants?
water soluble, toxicity, not inhibit metabolism
What is the name for when the water will move into the cell and there is lower water activity inside the cell?
hypotonic
What are the different categories that bacteria can grow in for pressure?
barotolerant and barophiles
What happens to the cell in a hypotonic solution?
nothing
What bacteria will grow at one atmospheric pressure?
barotolerant
What type of environment do bacterium prefer?
hypotonic
What bacteria will grow at greater than one atmospheric pressure?
barophiles
What is the term for pushing against the cell wall?
turger pressure
Where are barophiles found?
deep ocean
What is responsible for balancing out how much solute is outside the cell and what bacterial cells use when living in a salty environment?
osmoprotectants
What are important features of osmoprotectants?
water soluble, toxicity, not inhibit metabolism
What are the different categories that bacteria can grow in for pressure?
barotolerant and barophiles
What bacteria will grow at one atmospheric pressure?
barotolerant
What bacteria will grow at greater than one atmospheric pressure?
barophiles
Where are barophiles found?
deep ocean
What are barophiles also called?
black smokers
What controls microbrial growth?
antimircrobials
What are non-chemical antimicrobrials?
autoclave, UV light
What is the purpose of an autoclave?
destroy endospores
What is the temp, psi and min things need to be in an autoclave to be sterilized?
121*C, 15 psi, 15 min
What UV light has the shortest wavelength?
UV-C
What is another name for UV-C?
germicidal light
What UV light is most readily absorbed by DNA and kill DNA the best?
UV-C
What UV lights get through the ozone layer?
UV-A and UV-B
What are chemical antibacterials?
ethylene oxide, disinfectants, antiseptics, antimicrobials
What chemical antimicrobials are used in clinical studies?
ethylene oxide
What are examples of things that are disinfected by ethylene oxide?
catheders, bedding
What chemical antimicrobials are used on objects?
disinfectants
What chemical antimicrobial is used on body tissues?
antiseptics
What is a chemical antimicrobial that kills or inhibits the growth of a micro-organism?
antimicrobial
What word means to inhibit?
static
What word means to kill?
cidal
What word means to lyse?
lytic
What is the concentration of the drug that we want to achieve?
minimum inhibitory concentration
What is the concentration we want to avoid?
sub-inhibitory concentration
What is a chemical naturally produced by one microorganism to kill or inhibit another microorganism?
antibiotic
What are the four groups of organisms that produce the vast majority of Antibiotics?
penicillin, cephalasporium, bacillus, streptomyces
What is the name for completely man-made antibiotic?
synthetic
What is the name for a natural anti-biotic that have had some modifications to it?
semi-synthetic
What is the name of categorizing anti-microbials based on how many types of organisms that drug will work against?
spectrum of action
What are the two different spectrums?
broad and narrow
Who sought out a drug that would kill all bacteria?
Paul Ehrlich
What was the name for the drug that Paul Ehrlich was trying to discover?
Magic Bullet
What chemical did Paul Ehrlich develop?
Salvarson
What does Salvarson contain?
arsenic
What is the term where the chemical is toxic to the pathogen but safe for the host?
selective toxicity
Who made the most substantial discoveries toward antibiotics?
Alexander Fleming
What did Alexander Fleming discover when he was plating Staphlycoccus?
Penicillium notatum
What did Penicillium notatum produce?
Penicillin F
Who found the best producing strain of penicillin on a canteloupe?
Mary Hunt
What strain of penicillin was found on the canteloupe?
Penicillin G
What are the four different mechanisms for resistance for a bacteria?
modify the target, modigy the antibacterial, block access to the target, and pumps
What is the name for the pump that will take drugs of similar chemical composition and pump every single one of them out?
multi-drug resistance pumps
What are the two parts of the peptidoglycan?
glycan backbone and amino acid crosslinking
What are the NAG-NAM bonds held together by?
glycosidic bond
How many amino acids are attached to one NAM?
4
What is the name for 4 amino acids attached to 4 other amino acids?
tetrapeptide
What two amino acids are used in cross linking?
L-amino acid and D-amino acid
What amino acid do we use?
L-amino acid
Is syphilis a bacillus, coccus, spirochete, or spirrlium bacteria?
spirochete bacteria
What is the bacteria that causes syphilis?
Treponema pallidum
How is syphilis bacterium trasnmitted?
body fluids
What is the majority of syphilis passed?
sexual content
What is the name for syphilis that is passed across the placenta?
congenital syphilis
When is a fetus susceptible to congenital syphilis?
after 4th month of gestation
If the fetus is infected with syphilis after the 4th month what does it usually result in?
spontaneous generation
What are some of the problems a child will have it is born with syphilis?
skeletal problems, brain problems, heart defects
What did syphilis used to be treated with before the introduction of penicillin?
liquid mercury
What did the English refer to Syphilis as?
French Disease
What are the four stages of syphilis?
primary, secondary, latent, tertiary
What is the lesion that is present during primary syphilis?
chancre
What happens during primary syphilis?
spirochete is able to go skin to skin,
wherever it is, it can infect the skin
creates a lesion called a chancre
the chancre is painless
the wound will clear up by itself, but the organism is still present
organism has gone into bloodstream
What is the name for the rash that develops during secondary syphilis?
pockey
What happens during secondary syphilis?
It is all over the body
Bacteria is traveling through th blood stream and causes damage to blood vessels (pockey)
can also affect hair follicles (alapecia: hair loss)
Individual is extremely contagious
What happens during Latent Syphilis?
no symptoms
can be in this stage for a long period of time
it is non-contagious except for a fetus
it becomes non-treatable
What happens during tertiary syphilis?
organism is very difficult to destroy
this stage is more of an over activity of the immune system
leads to Gummas
This is an autoimmune situation
What are the raised leasions that are an accumulation of your cells during tertiary syphilis?
Gummas
What are the two most noticeable results of autoimmune diseases that result from syhilis?
cardiovascular dieseae and neurosyphilis
Chlamydia require oxygen inside a cell. What is the name for this?
obligate intracelluar parasite
Compared to E.coli, chlamydia has a very small what?
genome
Why does chlamydia have a small genome?
it is restricted and it can use the host cell's genome or the products from the host
Why does Chlamydia take energy from its host?
it doesn't have a complete metabolic pathway
What kind of lifestyle does Chlamydia have?
biphasic lifestyle
What are the two forms chlamydia can live in?
elementary body and reticulate body
What form of Chlamydia is the infectious form?
elementary body
What is the smaller form that Chlamydia can live in?
elementary body
What is going on during the elementary body stage of chlamydia?
it is very small
very thick and rigid cell wall
incapable of binary fission
infectious form
retains water
body gets engulfed by a host cell once in contact
stays inside the vesicle known as an inclusion
converts to different body
What is the larger form that Chlamydia can live in?
reticulate body
The reticulate body has no shape. What is the name for this?
amorphous
What is going on during the reticulate body stage of chlamydia?
the cell wall has to be broken down and then it ends up not being existent
it begins to divide
What is the bacteria that causes bacterial sexually transmitted disease?
C. trachomatis
If C. trachomatis gets into the eye of a newborn and the eye gets infected what is it called?
scoring
What is C. trachomatis the number one cause of?
preventable blindness
What Chlamydia bacteria causes parrot fever?
C. psittaci
What Chlamydia bacteria is the leading cause of walking pneumonia?
C. pneumoniae
What is the name for the object that facilitates the passing of a disease?
fomite
What is the neurological disease that is acellular and used to be called slow virus?
prions
Who was the scientist who helped the Fore tribe?
Carleton Gajdusek
What disease the Fore Tribe have?
Kuru
What was the Fore tribe consuming that caused them to die?
nervous tissue
What disease is Prion's like?
scrapie
What is the name for the space in the brain that is caused by Prions and Scrapie?
spongiform encephalopathies
Who was the first scientist to actually show a protein that caused Prions and named the bacteria?
Stanely Prusiner
If a mis-folded membrane were to be consume and the proteins travel through the intestinal tract, what type of disease can occur?
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
What was the 2nd largest pandemic in history?
Bubonic Plague
The people who survived the Bubonic Plague were believed to have survived because they lacked what gene?
CCR5
What organism causes Bubonic Plague?
Yersinia pestis
Is Yersinia pestis a gram-negative or gram-positive?
gram-negative
What is the morpholgy of Yersinia pestis?
bacillus
What is the appearance of Yersinia pestis when it is stained?
saftey pin appearance
What is the Vector and reservoir for Bubonic Plague?
vector: flea
reservoir: rat
Yersinia pestis has a tropism for what?
lymph nodes
What is the name for swolllen lymph nodes?
bubo
What are the lesions that occur all over the body due to Bubonic Plague?
hemorrhages
After the hemorrhages from the Bubonic Plague, what occurs?
neucrosis
Who was the "character" that evolved because of the Bubonic Plague?
Doctor Schnabel von Rom
What disease can occur when the Bubonic Plague is spread through aerosol?
pneumonic plague
What are the three different types of Rickettsias?
Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, and Wolbachia
What is the infection of white blood cells and causes damage to the immune system?
Ehrliciosis
What is the name for bacteria that from relationships with insects?
symbioses
What bacteria causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
B. ricketsii
What is the diesase caused by B. ricketsii?
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
What is the vector for rocky mountain spotted fever?
ticks
What is the vector for rocky mountain spotted fever in the east?
dog tick
What is the vector for rocky mountain spotted fever in the west?
wood tick
What is the most common way to get infected with rocky mountain spotted fever?
slaiva
What disease causes epidemic typhus?
R. prowazekii
What does R. prowazekii cause?
Epidemic Typhus
What is the vector for epidemic typhus?
lice
What is the name that means related to fever and disorientation?
stupor
What disease did Anne Frank die from?
Epidemic Typhus
What is the bacteria that has the same O Antigen as R. prowazekii?
Proteus Mirabalis OX19
What disease do the people that serve as a reservoir for Epidemic Typhus have?
Brill-Zinser Disease
Where do people with Brill-Zinser Disease harbor R. prowazekii?
in their lymph nodes
What is the bacteria that causes Endemic Murine Typhus?
R. typhi
What disease does R. typhi cause?
Endemic Murine Typhus
What can serve as the reservoir for Endemic Murine Typhus?
rats
What is the vector for Endemic Murine Typhus?
flea
What is the name for something that is always present in a populatoins at low levels?
endemic
What is the name for a localized outbreak?
epidemic
Who discovered the Ricketsia bacteria?
Howard Rickets
What is used to make Ricketsia grow?
eggs
What human organ has the closest similarity to Ricketsia?
DNA in mitochondria
What is the name for the theory of why human mitochonria's DNA is prokaryotic?
Endosymtiont Theory
What is the term for program cell death?
apoptosis
Describe the Endosymbiont Theory?
a prokaryote engulfed another prokaryoted, the engulfed one decides to stay and it turns into a eukaryote, over time the engulfed one takes control of program cell death. The engulfed cells genes are degraded, so if it signals Apoptosis it dies so the cell is no longer free living?
Alternating amino acids help resist what, that break peptide bonds?
normal enzymes
What is the rare amino acid that bacteria use?
Diaminopimelic Acid (DAP)
What is the cell wall of a bacteria?
polymer
What are the individual parts of a monomer?
polymer
What are the parts of a monomer?
1 NAG attached to 1 NAM attached to a Pentapeptide
What are the 3 parts of the monomer called as a whole?
Park Nucleotide
What is inside a bacterial cell, that is organic, and wants to be stuck in the membrane?
bactroprenol
When a bacterial cell wall is actively growing, what is there a very controlled balance of?
cell wall synthesis and cell wall autolysis
What is the term for making?
synthesis
What is the term for breaking?
autolysis
What are enzymes that contribute to autolysis and is constantly breaking down the cell wall?
autolysins
What is the enzymes that is responsible for the process of transglycosidation?
transglycosidase
What does transglycosidase attach?
sugars
What is the enzyme that is responsible for the process of transpeptidation?
transpeptidase
What does transpeptidsae attach?
peptides
What is the name for every single enzyme outside the cell wall that are involved in synthesis?
Penicillin Binding Proteins
What are the 4 groups of beta-lactams?
penicllins, cephalosporins, carbapenems, monobactams
Is penicllin a broad or narrow spectrum?
narrow
What bacteria do penicillin work on?
gram-positives
Can penicillin be taken orally?
no, acid sensitive
What enzyme breaks the bond between the Nitrogen=Carbon bond?
penicillinase
What is the Mode of Action of penicillin?
penicillin binds to transpeptidase, bacterium can't completely hook the Park Nucleotide into the cell wall, autolysis continues, synthesis can't keep up, cell bursts under turgor pressure
What are the examples of Penicillin?
methicillin, ampicillin, and amoxacillin
What penicillin drug is semi-synthetic, stable, can be taken orally, penicillinase resistant, and narrow spectrum?
methicillin
What penicllin drug is acid stable, broader specturm of action, and penicllinase sensitive?
ampicillin and amoxacillin
What chemical can be added to ampicillin and amoxacillin that inhibits penicillinase?
clavulanic acid
What is the name for the antibacterial that is clavulanic acid and amoxacillin used together?
augmentin
What beta-lactam is produced by cephalosporiums?
cephalosporins
What are the groups of cephalosporins called?
Group I - IV, Orally Active
What is an example of the cephalosporin orally active?
cephalexin
What is the broadest spectrum of Beta-Lactams?
carbapenems
What are some examples of carbepenem?
imipenem and mirpenem
For imipenem to gether through the outer membrane, it goes through a channel called what?
Outer Membrane Porins
What is the narrowest specturm of Beta-Lactams?
monobactams
Monobactams only work against ony transpeptidase, what is it?
PBP3
Where is PBP3 found?
certain gram-negatives
What are some example of monobactams?
aztreonam
What drug is used for UTI's?
aztreonam
What is naturally produced by streptomyces?
glycopeptides
What drug is an example of glycopeptide?
vancomysin
Why is Vancomysin the last resort drug?
has liver toxicity
What is the Mode of Action for Vancomysin?
it binds to last amino acid in park nucleotide, it can't be cross linked with other parts of the cell wall, weak cell wall, autolysis, turgor pressure, cell bursts
How is Vancomysin usually administered?
IV
What antibiotic is produced by bacillus?
bacitracin
What is the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease?
Borrelia burgdoerferi
What is the shape of Borrelia burgdoergeri?
spriochete
Who discovered the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease?
William Burgdorfer
Why is Vancomysin the last resort drug?
has liver toxicity
What is the number 1 tick born illness in the U.S.?
Lyme Disease
What is the Mode of Action for Vancomysin?
it binds to last amino acid in park nucleotide, it can't be cross linked with other parts of the cell wall, weak cell wall, autolysis, turgor pressure, cell bursts
What is the vector for Lyme Disease in the East and Midwest?
deer tick
How is Vancomysin usually administered?
IV
What is the vector for Lyme Disease in the West?
western black legged tick
What antibiotic is produced by bacillus?
bacitracin
What is the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease?
Borrelia burgdoerferi
What is the shape of Borrelia burgdoergeri?
spriochete
Who discovered the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease?
William Burgdorfer
What is the number 1 tick born illness in the U.S.?
Lyme Disease
What is the vector for Lyme Disease in the East and Midwest?
deer tick
What is the vector for Lyme Disease in the West?
western black legged tick
What is the reservoir for Lyme Disease in the East and Upper Midwest?
rodents
What is the reservoir for Lyme Disease in the West?
small lizards
What is the name for the rash you get with Lyme Disease?
erythemia migrans
What happens if Lyme Disease is untreated?
damaging effects on cardiobascular system and CNS, leads to Bell's Palsy