History
The year of penicillin discovery
When is 1928?
A microorganism that is capable of infection but resistant to antibiotics
What is a superbug
The passage of mutations of mutations from generation to generation.
What is vertical transfer?
This is changed to protect against outside invaders
What is the cell membrane?
First discovered antibiotic.
What is penicillin?
The decade pharmaceuticals shift away from pharmaceuticals
When is the 1980's?
Misuse of antibiotics leads to selection for what trait in bacteria?
What is antibiotic resistance?
Three methods of horizontal transfer of mutations?
What are transformation, transduction, and conjugation?
This rids the bacteria from the cell.
What are membranous pumps?
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The period of most active antibiotic discovery and production
When is the 1940s to the 1980s?
What type of organism is resistant to antibiotic treatments but not viral treatments?
What is a virus?
What is it called when there is an environmental pressure on an organism to change the information being passed from generation to generation.
What is selection pressure?
This destroys and degrades the bacteria.
What are enzymes?
The antibiotic that MRSA is resistant to.
What is methicillin?
The year 20% percent of hospital cases are penicillin resistant.
When is 1945?
The ailment that superbugs cause, usually in hospital settings.
What is a secondary condition?
The amount it takes for bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance
What is at least 11 days?
This bypasses the effects of drugs
What is changing chemical cellular processes?
The amount that the insulin patent was sold to the University of Toronto for by James Collip and Charles Best
What is $1?
The decade of the quote "We've conquered infectious disease"
When is the 1980s?
The most dangerous superbug to human health?
What is acinetobacter baumanii?
The 5 types of genome mutation?
What is deletion, Duplication, Inversion, Insertion, Translocation
This prevents binding of antibiotics to the cell.
What is changing binding sites?
How many become infected with pathogens that are antibiotic resistant in America alone?
What is 2 million.