Lecture Notes on Symbiotic Relationships and Microbiomes

Flashcards about Symbiotic Relationships and Microbiomes

Symbiotic Relationships

Basic definitions involving interactions between organisms.

Microbiome

Normal microbiota resident that are there all the time. Places on surfaces that are colonized by bacteria and or parcathe.

Opportunistic Pathogens

Normal microbiota microglia that can cause problems if they get to the wrong place.

Host Range

Types of infections that will affect a wide range of different plants and animals or organisms; transmission interspecies

Interspecies Transmission

How diseases get transmitted between different species.

Parenteral Route

A route other than enteral. Brace in the skin or injection

Iatrogenic

An infectious disease is a result of medical intervention

Pathogen

Disease causing. Something that generates hiccups.

Pathogenicity

Kind of a yes, no. Does this thing cause disease? Does it disrupt hormone function? Is it pathogenic or it's not?

Virulence

How easily a disease is caused. Related to infectious dose.

Virulence Factor

Any trait that allows that organism or that pathogen to create disease.

Coagulase

A cool enzyme that causes blood clots.