Miscellaneous
What are the microbes that are most resistant to antimicrobial agents (besides prions)
What are endospores?
What is aseptic?
It is an environment free of pathogenic microbes
Which antimicrobial agents are only chemically altered in a lab?
What is semisynthetic antimicrobial?
What is the type of radiation can only disinfect and sterilize surfaces and clear/transparent liquids
What is non-ionizing radiation?
What is the process that uses heat to kill pathogens and control microbes that cause food and beverage spoilage?
What is pasteurization?
What makes selective toxicity successful?
What is they are more toxic to a pathogen than to the pathogen’s host
What is the purpose of the use-dilution test?
What is to test how effective a disinfectant or antiseptic is against specific microbes?
What is the method used for the long-term preservation of cells or microorganisms by freeze-drying?
What is lyophilization
This class of antimicrobial drugs works by altering the shape of the 30S ribosomal subunit, causing mRNA codons to be misread and preventing proper protein synthesis in bacteria.
What are aminoglycosides?
What causes antimicrobial drugs that target translation in prokaryotes not have large effects on eukaryotic translation?
What is the difference in ribosomal rRNAs? (Prokaryotes 30S and 50S subunits, Eukaryotes 40S and 60S subunits)
Which drugs act as antimetabolic drugs?
What are Sulfa drugs or Sulfonamides?
What is the pressure exerted by water movement across a semipermeable membrane due to differences in solute concentration?
Osmotic pressure
These antimicrobial drugs weaken bacterial cell walls by preventing NAM–NAM cross-linking in peptidoglycan, ultimately causing the cell to burst due to osmotic pressure.
What are beta-lactam antibiotics?
What is the equation to solve for Decimal Reduction Time? (D-Value)
What is D=t/log(N0 /Nt)?
What is an example of a Word that has a suffix scientist use to indicate types of microbial growth that inhibits growth but doesn’t completely destroy microbes?
What is Bacteriostatic, fungistatic, virustatic (-stasis or -static)
This class of antimicrobial agents prevents protein synthesis by binding directly to specific mRNA sequences and blocking ribosomal subunits from attaching.
What are antisense nucleic acids?