Cholera
The type of pathogen that causes cholera.
What is a bacterium?
The bacteria that causes the black plague.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
A diverse microbiome is helpful for this reason.
When two organisms both benefit from a relationship.
What is mutualism?
When organisms work together to share resources.
What is cooperation?
When Cholera was first discovered in England, it was tied to these pieces of infrastructure.
What are water pumps?
An organism that carries disease to humans.
What is a vector?
This is a new treatment in trials to help people use donors to improve their microbiomes.
What are fecal transplants?
When one organism benefits from the other, but the other is unbothered.
What is commensalism?
To exploit the work of others.
What is cheating?
The country where the 7th cholera pandemic has been documented, which persists to this day.
The black plague is named after this symptom forming on the skin of sufferers.
What are buboes?
The microbiome consists of these four types of microbes.
What are bacteria, fungi, viruses, and arthropods (insects)?
When the population of _____ goes up, the population of ______ shortly follows.
What are prey; predators?
When bacteria clump together, they form these structures.
What are biofilms?
The number of antibiotics to which cholera has shown resistance.
What is 4?
The first port city to feel the effects of the black plague.
Where is Messina?
This disease is common in patients whose microbiomes have been depleted due to previous infections or cancer treatments.
What is C. diff?
What are producers (also accept autotrophs)?
Compounds that help bacteria take up metals.
What are siderophores?
The bacterium that causes cholera.
What is vibrio cholerae?
What is the ERAP2 gene?
These are approximately this many bacteria living on/in our bodies.
What is 39 trillion?
Competition between two or more species.
What is interspecific competition?
A cooperative feeding method used by humpback whales.
What is bubble-net feeding?