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Pioneers
Groups of Microorganisms
Viral Diseases
Bacterial Diseases
100
The study of microorganisms.
What is microbiology?
100
Who is the "father of biology"?
What is Louis Pasteur?
100
Found in an abundace in freshwater and marine habitats?
What is Algae.
100
"fecal to oral" transmission?
What is Hepatitis A.
200
A single-celled microscopic animals without a rigid cell wall?
What is protozoa?
200
The man that discovered that bacteria existed in heat-stable and heat-sensitive forms.
Who is John Tyndall?
200
A large group of one celled microrganisms that vary in size, shape, and arrangement of cells?
What is Bacteria.
200
Blood borne disease that may also be transimitted by other body fluids?
What is Hepatitis B.
200
Syphilis.
What is an STD caused by treponema pallidum spirochetes?
300
A resistant, dormant structure formed inside of some bacteria that can withstand adverse conditions?
What is endospores?
300
The man that used a primitive microscope to observe stagnant water and scrapings from the teeth?
Who is Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek?
300
Organisms that lack chlorophyll?
What are Fungi.
300
A respritory disease of pigs caused by type A viruses, and spreads very easily from person to person?
What is Swine flu.
300
MRSA.
What infections can occur on the surface of the skin or may go into the soft tissue and form of a boil or abscess?
400
The ________ that form chains as they divide?
What is streptocooci?
400
the man that recognized the role of airborne microorganisms in postsurgical infections?
Who is Joseph Lister.
400
A small protienaceous infectious particles?
What is Prions.
400
The virus carried by mosquitoes and can infect humans, birds, horses, and some other mammals?
What is West Nile Virus.
400
Tuberculosis.
What is the leading cause of death from infectious diseases worldwide?
500
______ that some cells from that serves as a protective layer that covers the cell wall?
What is a capsule?
500
the man that developed a two-part dish that was used for growing bacteria and a technique used for isolating pure colonies of bacteria?
Who is Robert Koch.
500
A common yeast that is found in the oral cavity of about half the patient population?
What is Candida.
500
casued by both shingles and chickenpox?
What is Herpes Zoster Virus.
500
Legionnaire's disease.
What is the bacteria that is transmitted through aerosolization and aspiration of contaminated water?