Intro
A disease we have eradicated worldwide
What is smallpox
A microbe with a size of about 2 micrometers
What is a bacterium
This is done to prepare a bacteria smear on a microscope slide for staining
What is heat fixing
These fungi live unicellularly
What are yeasts
The number 4 cause of infectious disease deaths worldwide (in 2019 GBD
What is tuberculosis
A nucleus is not present in a cell of this type of microorganism
What is a prokaryote
Outer membranes are found in these types of bacteria
What is Gram negative
PrP that is infectious has these letters added to it as a superscript.
What is "sc"
Developer of postulates to prove a specific microbe causes a specific disease
Who was R. Koch
Bacteria are now categorized in this kingdom
What is monera
This structure prevents bacterial cells from drying out and protects them from being engulfed by immune cells
What is glycocalyx
Amoebiasis is treated with two antibiotics. The second one, paromomycin kills this form of the microbe.
What is the cysts
He was first to propose that physicians wash their hands before treating patients
I. Semmelweis
The kind of microscopy that uses UV light to "see" microbes
What is fluorescence microscopy
They are circular pieces of DNA, but not in the nucleoid of bacteria
What are plasmids
Severe systemic infections of pathogenic fungi are often treated with this "terrible" drug.
What is Amphotericin B
He proposed the germ theory of disease
Who was Pasteur
1000x magnification is about the limit for this type of microscope
What is a compound light microscope
High salt in mannitol salt agar is used for this purpose.
Sexual reproduction of this microbe occurs in infected felines before potentially infecting humans
What is Toxoplasma gondii