Early pioneers
Implemented hand washing between patients
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
Known for pasteurization
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The heating process used today to kill bacteria in milk
What is pasteurization?
Pertaining to an infectious disease that is constantly present in a region, community, or population but involves very few numbers of people.
What is endemic?
The first antibiotic
What is penicillin?
Built a compound microscope
Who is Robert Hooke?
Known for Koch's postulates
Who is Robert Koch?
Can live without oxygen
What is anaerobic?
Pertaining to an infectious disease that occurs with a greater-than-normal incidence rate at the same time in a geographical area
What is epidemic?
PPE stands for
What is Personal Proctective Equipment?
First to observe bacteria
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
Responsible for aseptic technique
Who is Joseph Lister?
Needs oxygen to survive
What is aerobic?
An infectious that occurs worldwide or in a majority of the population of a large geographic region.
What is a pandemic?
Military use of pathogenic microorganisms as a weapon against the enemy.
What is germ warfare?
Attempted to disprove abiogensis
Who is Franceso Redi?
Developed the gram stain
Who is Hans Gram?
Any agent, physical or chemical capable of destroying all living microorganisms, including spores, to render an object sterile
What is a sterilant?
To do the right thing even if no one is around to observe it
What is surgical conscience?
A set of work practices utilized in the perioperative setting by surgical team members which prevents or minimizes contamination and the transmission of pathogenic microrganisms
What is aeseptic technique?
Inoculated a child with cowpox
Who is Edward Jenner?
Father of chemotherapy
Who is Paul Ehrlich?
The genetic material from one bacterium could be transferred to another
What is conjugation?
Aeger Prima
What is patient first?
An unsuccessful process that injected healthy individuals with fluid from cowpox pustules to try to provide immunity to smallpox
What is variolation?