CHP 1 FLASHCARDS

What is the germ theory of disease?

disease caused by infections of pathogenic microorganisms

aseptic technique

pure culture

a culture containing a single kind of microorganism

What are Koch's postulates?

1. The same pathogen must be present in every case of the disease.

2. The pathogen must be isolated from the diseased host and grown in pure culture.

3. The pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when it is inoculated into a healthy, susceptible laboratory animal.

4. The pathogen must be isolated from the inoculated animal and must be shown to be the original organism.

observed the cork under the microscope.

Robert Hooke

observed living things under the microscope.

Anton von Leeuwenhoek

Immunology

study of the body's resistance to infectious disease; immune system

Virology

study of viruses

developed polio vaccine

Jonas Salk

First to observe bacteria obtaining genes from the environment

Griffith

Bell jar experiment to disprove spontaneous generation.

Francesco Redi

What was the causative agent in the Bubonic Plague?

Yersinia pestis (CARRIED FLEAS ON RATS).

Spontaneous generation

microbes that could arise from nonliving matter

Who was the scientist who worked to disprove it with the bell jar

experiment?

developed an aseptic technique

Louis Pasteur

worked with cowpox, a similar disease to smallpox/worked in immunology

Edward Jenner

chemotherapy

The use of drugs to treat diseases such as cancer

Father of antibiotics (from fungus-killing bacteria)

Alexander Fleming

Who developed postulates to prove there was one causative agent for one disease?

Robert Koch

developed the first aseptic technique

Joseph Lister

Developed rabies/cholera vaccine; pasteurization (heating wine and milk to 56 Celsius)

Louis Pasteur

Who thought air was needed for life?

Needham

colony

Observed on a solid surface, one bacteria dividing.

Antimicrobial therapy (Antibiotics)

treat diseases caused by bacteria

told doctors to wash their hands.

Semmelweis

Who boiled/sealed liquids to show no growing microbes?

Spallanzani

Florence Nightingale

Improved hand hygiene

made a filter to remove bacteria; discovered that some filtered fluids were able to create infections.

Chamberland