Medical Microbiology Review

Find the definition of the following terms:

• PPE

• aseptic technique

• biohazard

• autoclave

• chemical spill

• Koch’s postulates

• germ theory

• pasturization

• vaccination

• antibiotics

• spontaneous generation

• culture medium’streak plate method

• media

• pathogenesis

• polymarase chain reaction

• microscopy

• magnification

• bright field

• dark field

• colony

• pure culture

• mixed culture

• sterilization

• disinfection

• antisepsis

• inspection

• aspectic technique

• autoclave

• refraction

• wet mount

• fixed mount

• resolving power

• phase contrast

• SEM

• TEM

• ideidification

• incubation

• isolation

• inoculation

• information gathering

• eyepiece

• tube

• rotating nosepiece

• high power objective

• low power objective

• oil immersion

• stage

• iris

• base

• light source

• bacilli

• cocci

• spirilla

• endospores

• cell wall

• opportunistic pathogen

• normal flora

• helminths

• virus

• protozoa

• bacteria

• lytic cycle

• capsid

• multicellular

• pathogen

• prokaryote

• eukaryote

• heterotropic

• autotropic

• resistance

• budding

• hyphae

• bacteriophage

• lysogenic cycle

• binary fission

• innate immunity

• adaptive immunity

• susceptible host

• antigen

• mode of transmission

• STORCH

• infectious dose

• virulence

• exogenous

• endogenous

• direct transmission

• indirect transmission

• fomite

• vector

• outbreak

• quarantine

• zoonotic disease

• emerging/reemerging disease

• neglected tropical disease

• arthropods

• rickettsiae

• superbug

• mutation

• efflux pump

• broad-spectrum

• narrow-spectrum

• kirby-bauer disk diffusion test

• zone of inhibition

• bactericidal

• bacteriostatic

• antibiotic