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Microbiology

Subject : engineering
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1. What species producing watery diarrhea also produces gas gangrene






2. The study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye






3. Larger bacteria engulf smaller bacteria; these small bacteria may be our present- day mitochondria and chloroplasts






4. How do bacterial capsules function






5. What does candida result in with immunoCised pts






6. What is Treponema - tricky Ts






7. Where does HIV virus duplicate during latent phase






8. What are the lab findings for cholera






9. What are the viral causes of meningitis






10. What can cause food poisoning in reheated rice






11. What HIV parameter allows providers to monitor effect of durg therapy






12. Require intracellular parasite/has to be within a host cell to replicate (prokaryotic); causes trachoma (most common infectious cause of blindness in the world)






13. Site of protein synthesis; some are free in cytoplasm - others are bound to the rough ER






14. In the bacterial growth curve - what happens in the lag phase






15. What toxins does S. aureus secrete






16. painless chancre - org and dz






17. What are VRE and What do they cause






18. Undulant fever - transmitted in dairy products - contact with animals






19. What kind does exotoxin from C. botulinum do






20. What does norwalk virus do






21. Hypothesis that living organisms arise from preexisting life (what we know is true)






22. What species causes bloody diarrhea - is lactose neg - and had flagellar motility






23. 1668 - Attempted to disprove spontaneous generation






24. Nucleic acid is injected into host cell from the capsid through tail sheath - penetrating host cell membrane by contraction of tail (similar to a syringe)






25. Eukaryotic and photosynthetic; can be unicellular - filamentous - or plant- like; includes brown - red - and green algae






26. Rash begins on trunk - spreads to face and extremities with lesions of different age - agent and dz






27. Structure unique to some bacteria






28. What is the TX for h pylori






29. Tissue died






30. Requires absence of oxygen






31. What is the triad of HUS






32. What happens when macrophages activate macrophages






33. tissue nematode causing skin inflammation and ulceration - org - transmission - tx






34. What are the three forms of prion diesase






35. Where do VZV cells remain latent






36. Unimmunized child with a rash beginning at his head and moving down with postauricular lymphadenopathy






37. Herpes - warts






38. health care provider






39. When is the AIDS dx made






40. What kind of paralysis does tetanus toxin produce






41. Giardia lamblia - attaches to the intestinal cell wall via a sucker disk - causes severe diarrhea - is shed in the feces of wil animals






42. When is H flu vaccine give






43. Gram- stain: see the difference between gram- positive/gram- negative






44. In which population do paramyxovirus cause disease and What do they cause






45. Filled six jars with decaying meat; three covered jars => no maggots; three uncovered jars => maggots






46. 3rd leading cause of UTI - large mucoid capsule and viscous colonies






47. Bacillus (aerobic) and clostridium (anaerobic); both are soil organisms (can survive lack of water)






48. Reassortment of viral genome (human flu A virus recombines with swine flu A virus






49. What is in pneumovax






50. What is the nl flora of the colon