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51 Cards in this Set
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What is any organism that is capable of supporting the nutritional and physical growth requirements of another is called?
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Host
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The term that describes the presence and multiplication of within a host of another living organism, causing injury to the host
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Infection
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What describes the act of estabilishing a presence
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Colonization
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When a co9lonizing bacteria require nutrition and shelter but do not harm the host the bacteria is called?
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commensalism
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What is an interaction when the microrganism and the host both benefit from the interaction
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mutualism
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The disease producing potential of a microrganism is called
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virulence
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What are free living organisums that obtained their growth from dead or decaying organic material in the enviroment
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saprophytes
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The capability to produce a disease when contitions are favoriable for the organism is called
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opportunistic pathogen
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A protein particle the lacks a genome is called
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prion
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Causes Kuru in humans
Mad Cow disease in Cattle Is caused by what and what are the effects? |
It is caused by Karu and the effects are slowlt pregressive, noninflammatory neuronal degeneration, leading to loss of cordination
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loss of coordination is called
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ataxia
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What are organisms that contian a membrane bound nucleus are called
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eukaryotes
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What is the smallest pathogen, has no organised cellular structure, has a protein coat, and incapable of replication outside a living cell
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virus
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What is a member of the animal kingdom that infect or colonise other animals, which then transmit them to humans or in some cases directly infect the human host.
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Parasites
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What is the smallest obligate intracellular parasite
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virus
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A latent virus is one that enters the body and can be dorminant for a period of time, what is an example?
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Herpes
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Name the structure that contains both DNA and RNA, no organelles, and the genome consitis of onle single chromosome of DNA
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Bacteria cell
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Ovum and the sperm are called
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Gametes and are haploid
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What are the two major cateorigies of cells
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gametes and somatic cells
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When you have only one set of chromosome from one parent the cell is called
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Hapliod
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When a cell contains both sets of chromosomes
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Diploid
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Bacteria with extremely strict growth requirements are called
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Fastidious
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Bacteria that requires O2 fro growth and metabolism
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aerobes
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organism that can not survive in the presence of O2 are called
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anaerobic
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An organism capab;le of adapting to either O2 or no O2 is called
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facultatively anaerobic
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Name a uniceullar prokaryotes capable of independent replication
NO peptoglycian wall resistant to PCN and cephalosporins |
Mycoplasmas
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Name a obligate intracellular pathogen
has a rigid peptidoglycan cell wall, reporduce asexually, and contain both DNS and RNA |
Rickettsiaceae
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What can infect but not produce disease in in the cells of certian arthropods such as fleas, ticks, and lice
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Rickettsiaceae
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What is single celled organism that is the size of a RCB and is produced by the budding process
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Yeast - fungi
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What can infect and cause a disease in animals
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Parasites
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What containes the repoductive and metabolic machinery of the cell
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cytoplasm
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The cytoplasm is surounded by a felexible lipid membrane called the
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cytpolasmic membrane
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Inanimate objects that carry an infectious disease are known as
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Fomites
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What is refered to as the collection of signs an symptoms expressed by the host during the disease course
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symptomatology
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The phase during which the pathogen begins active resplication with producing reconizable symptoms in the host is called
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Incubation period
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The initial period of symptoms in the host is the hallmark of what stage
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Prodromal stage
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WHat stage is characterised by the containment of infection, progressive elimination of the pathogen, repair of damaged tissue, and resolution of associated symptoms
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The Convalescent
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WHat is the total elemination of a pathogen from the body w/o residual signs and sympotms of disease
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The resolution
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A protein that is released from the bacterial cell druing growth
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Exotoxins
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A complex molecule composed of lipid and polysaccharides found with in the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria
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Endotoxin
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Something that causes irreversable and letheal damage to a bacterial pathogen is called
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bactericidal
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If its inhibitory effects on bacterial growth are reversed when the agent is eliminated it is called
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bacteriostatic
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Antibotics that target the cell wall are in an antibotic reaction are called
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PCN
Cephlosporins Monobactams Carbapenem Glycopeptides |
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Inhibition of bacterial synthesis of antibotic reaction
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aminoglycosides, macrolides, ketolides, tetracyclines, chloramphenicol and rifampin
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The interruption of nucleic acid synthesis of antibotic reaction
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fluoroquinolones and nalidixic acid
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Antibotics the interference with normal metabolism are
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sulfonamides, and trimethoprim
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A class of antiviral agents developed solele for the treamtent of HIV infection are the
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Protease inhibitors
END in IVR |
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The family of antifungal compounds that bind to esterol and form holes in the cytoplasmic membrane, causing death of the cell are called
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The Polyene Family
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The anitviral class of drug the inhinbits the synthesis of ergosterol, thereby damaging the integrity of the cytoplasmic membrane is called
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The Imidazole class
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Examples of the imidazole class of drugs are
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All end in zole
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Examples of the antiviral Polyene family are
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amphotericin B, and nystatin
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