bacteria and diseases

symbiosis

the relation between the indigenous flora and the host

commensalism

is a type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits from the other without harming it

pathogenecity

refers to an organisms ability to cause disease

koch’s postulates

first released in 1890, four criteria designed to tell us if a certain organismis thecauseof a certain disease.

ambulatory care settings

facilities that provide health car to patients who do not remain obvernight

clostridium defficile

an anaerobic, ram positive, spore forming bacillus that can case diarrhea and other intestinal diseases when competing bacteris in the cut anre diminished by antibiotics