Viruses
Ultramicroscopic size
What is Viral Size Range?
High likelihood of therapeutic failure.
What is resistant?
Prevent DNA gyrase and DNA topoisomerase from relieving the tension from the supercoiling of DNA.
What is fluoroquinolones?
Large and diverse collection of microbes living on and in the body
What is normal biota?
The capacity to cause disease
What is pathogenicity?
Fully formed infectious virus
What is Virion?
Development of resistance.
What is spontaneous mutation?
Resistance because of a natural trait present without mutation or taking in genes
What is intrinsic resistance?
The presence of microorganisms causing damage to body tissues
What is infection?
Only infects those with compromised immune system
What is opportunistic?
Rod-shaped capsomeres that form a continuous helix.
What is Helical capsid?
Plasmids that can integrate into the chromosome using insertion sequences.
What is episomes?
Prevents transcription by binding to the RNA polymerase and stopping the polymerase from binding to the DNA
What is rifamycin?
A microbe whose relationship with its host is parasitic
What is pathogen?
Anthrax is .
What is a pathogen?
Virus that causes smallpox.
What is Poxviridae Orthopoxvirus?
Naturally capable of taking up exogenous DNA.
What is competence?
Similar mechanism of action to penicillins
What is cephalosporins?
Minimum number of microbes required for an infection to proceed
What is infectious dose?
Viral infections
What are pathogenic?
Only has a nucleocapsid.
What is Naked viruses?
Virus that infects a bacterial cell
What is bacteriophage?
Polymyxin and daptomycin
What are drugs that target the cell membrane?
Avenue for pathogens to exit the host
What are portals of exit?
H. pylori is a .
What is opportunistic bacteria?