Misc microbiology questions
The body's barrier against microorganisms and infection
What is skin?
Used to make rubber products, tobacco, spices and are used in processing leather.
What are microorganisms?
The sub-disciplines of Microbiology
What is Bacteriology, Mycology, Protozoology, and Virology?
The process of destroying pathogens in milk or other fluids by heating it.
What is pasteurization?
A microorganism that can cause a disease.
What is a pathogen?
The hardest to kill
What are spores?
Another word for yeast
What are special fungi?
Prevents microbial contamination and infection
What is the field of infection Control?
Bacteria eaters
What are bacteriophages?
A substance found in body fluids, protects against various diseases.
what is an Antibody?
Area with the most infectious pathogenic microorganisms which are harmful to the DHCP
What is the oral cavity?
Some microbes that can confer health benefits on a host
what are probiotics?
Contributes to the understanding of disease prevention through immunization and reliance
What is a general knowledge of immunity and body defense mechanisms?
Induce abnormal folding of normal cellular prion proteins in the brain.
What are prions?
Any infection associated with a medical or surgical intervention.
What is healthcare Associated Infection?
The easiest to kill
What is HIV?
They grow where they shouldn't be and get out of control
what are harmful microorganisms?
Important factors in the fields of medical microbiology
What is food microbiology, industrial microbiology, and environmental microbiology?
When bacteria , yeast , and protozoa were first discovered they were called:
What are Animalcules?
A bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
What is mycobacterium?
Is injected for a vaccine
What is an antigen?
The first approach to prevent harmful microorganisms
what is preventing contamination?
The understandings of the physical and chemical properties of microorganisms
What is where the microorganisms exist, how they grow, and how the environment influence microorganisms.
The father of Oral microbiology
Who is Willoughby D. Miller?
A microorganism that does not produce human illness.
What is non-pathogenic?