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Microbiology
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The study of the smallest living things. (less than 0.1mm) Which is the limit of things we can see with the naked eye. ( can be divided in 6 branches)
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Bacteriology
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the study of bacteria
*Rickettsia,Chlamydia, and Mycoplasmas(PPLO) |
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Mycology
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the study of fungi
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Algology
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The study of algea
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Protozology
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the study of unicellular animal types
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Virology
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the study of viruses
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Immunology
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the study of the immune system; how it works to protect us in a microbial world and how it can be used as diagnostic tool to identify disease organisms ina man
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Fungi
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can be fuzzy and white, green or sometimes black
*cotton candy like texture |
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hyphae
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the cell (eucaryotic)are growing end to end to create lilaments called hyphae
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Mycelium
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the circular mold itself, body of mold
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Budding
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Fungi exists as a unicellular form called yeast which can divide by budding.
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Dimorphic
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Able to assume 2 forms yeast and mold
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molds
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like 25C
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yeast
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like 37C
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algea
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Unicellular or multicellular
colonial types usually arenamed by their color green, blue grean (cyanobacteria),brown, yellow,flame like colored (dinoflafellates =red tide) |
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Ex. of Protozoans
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Malaria (plasmodium)
African sleeping Sickness (Trypanosoma) Chagas diseas, Giardia, Entamoeba (amoebic dysebtery) |
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Auger
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Red algae makes auger (container/plater) Discovered by Fraw Hesse
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Fastidious bugs
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These bugs are very picky and fussy and will not grow on blood/ do not have teeth
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Entamoeba
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Contaminated drinking water
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Giardia
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big in day car centers, goes into gall bladder
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Falcoporium
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Worst case of mileria
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Loa Loa worms
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Spread by black flies
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toxoplasmosis
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cat feces
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