General Microbial Control
You would use this type of microbial control when you cut your hand.
What is an antiseptic?
These filters are used in biological safety cabinets and in some vacuum cleaners to protect against allergens.
What are HEPA filters?
Iodine, fluorine, and chlorine are examples.
What are halogens?
Penicillin acts by inhibiting the building of this bacterial cell structure.
What is the cell wall?
On a petri dish, a circle of non growth forming around a microbial agent on a lawn of bacteria is called this:
What is a zone of inhibition?
This term refers to inhibiting bacterial growth but not to killing bacteria.
What is bacteriostasis?
Exposing bacteria to UV light can cause these to form in the bacterial DNA.
What are thymine dimers (or pyrimidine dimers)?
Formalin and glutaraldehyde are examples.
What are aldehydes?
The inhibition of protein synthesis acts on this part of the cell, which both eukaryotes and prokaryotes possess.
What are ribosomes?
MIC stands for this:
What is minimum inhibitory concentration?
Extreme heat or harsh chemicals do this to proteins.
What is denature?
This scientist used specifically timed heat treatments to destroy pathogens in milk and fruit juices.
Who is Pasteur?
Soaps and detergents are considered to have this level of germicidal activity.
What is low germicidal activity?
A molecule which acts as a mimic to a nucleotide or a nucleoside is called this.
What is an analog?
Out of these three administration methods (oral, intramuscular, and intravenous), this method gets the drug into the bloodstream the most quickly.
What is intravenous?
This type of virus is especially sensitive to antimicrobial treatments.
What is an enveloped virus?
Freeze-drying is also known as this.
What is lyophilization?
This is added to the eyes at birth to prevent blindness caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
What is silver nitrate?
Amphotericin B disrupts the cytoplasmic membrane by forming holes in this organism type:
What is a fungus?
Bacterial pathogens can become resistant to antibiotics via the acquisition of these:
What are R plasmids?
What is BSL-2?
These two methods of physical control team up to provide microbial control in the autoclaving process.
What is steam (heat) and pressure?
In the evaluation of the efficacy of chemical agents, they are compared in their ability to control microbes to this chemical.
What is phenol?
An antimicrobial that blocks the synthesis of folic acid in the bacterial cell is called this.
What is an antimetabolic, or a metabolic antagonist?
This is the name of the growth media (agar) used for a diffusion susceptibility test.
What is Mueller-Hinton agar?