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the study of parasites, fungi, bacteria, and viruses that are the
agents of infectious disease in humans |
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the study of bacteria that inhabit and/or colonize the human
body and cause disease; |
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| the study of fungi as causative agents of human disease |
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the study of viruses that cause
infectious syndromes in humans. |
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| range from 0.1 μm (Chlamydiae) to 10μm (Bacillus rods), |
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| ranging from ~8μm (yeasts) up to 10mm in size (filamentous fungi) |
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| Microorganism living on or in a host but causing the host no harm. |
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| – present, yet not causing any detectable effect |
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| Any disease-producing microorganism. |
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| Are all microbes in and on the body pathogenic? |
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| Which organisms can you see with a typical light microscope? |
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| Which organisms can only be seen with an electron microscope? |
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| Flagellum (plural flagella): An organ of motility; composed of tightly wound chains of strands containing a protein called flagellin. |
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| Term used to describe a drug that inhibits growth of an organism without killing it. |
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| Term used to describe a drug that kills microorganisms. |
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| A gram-negative bacterium characterized by the flexibly spiral shape and the possession of axial filaments. |
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| Coccus (plural: cocci): A bacterium with a rounded or spherical shape. |
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| A bacterial genus in which members are rod-shaped, gram-positive, endospore-forming, and, depending on species, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. Type species: B. subtilis |
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| A curved, rod-shaped bacterial cell. |
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