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Medical Microbiology

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L1 and L2: Intro, Functional Anatomy, and Life Cycle
True or false prokaryotes lack a ...,
True or false eukaryotes have a n...,
How do prokaryotes divide sexuall...
139  cards
Lecture 3: Bacterial Metabolism and Growth
What are four features that make ...,
___ acquire carbon from organic s...,
Most pathogenic bacteria are ____
69  cards
Lecture 4: Normal Flora
Normal vs transient flora,
True or false you can be a carrie...,
Anatomic distribution is determin...
45  cards
L7: Epidemiology
The epidemiologic triad is a patt...,
True or false getting a microbe v...,
What s the difference between a b...
57  cards
L6: Anti-Infective Therapy
____ drug used to treat any disea...,
True or false bacteriocidal antim...,
Which of the following antimicrob...
52  cards
Lecture 4 and 5: Control of Microorganisms (Sterilization and Disinfection)
____ absolute killing or removal ...,
Autoclave can allow for,
True or false sterilization destr...
38  cards
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Endogenous parasitism is only ___...,
___ always causes infection or di...,
____ only causes disease in compr...
41  cards
L8: Bacterial Pathogenicity
_____ sum of the characteristics ...,
What are the two primary bacteria...,
True or false for a pathogen to p...
82  cards
L9: Genetic Aspect of Pathogenicity
In transcription rnap binds to th...,
True or false translation is acco...,
Why is it that translation of mrn...
63  cards
Lecture 10: Bacterial Variation and Bacterial Mobilome
What are the two primary ways tha...,
____ the entirety of all genetic ...,
____ the complete listing of all ...
136  cards
Lecture 11: Genetic/Molecular Approaches to Study Bacterial Infections
____ an approach to the study of ...,
___ to characterize biological ex...,
True or false one can learn about...
39  cards
Lecture 12: Bacterial Exotoxins
True or false exotoxins are nucle...,
True or false exotoxins are found...,
True or false exotoxins can be ma...
64  cards
Lecture 13: Biofilms
True or false bacterial growth in...,
____ collection mixture of microo...,
True or false the biofilms can li...
66  cards
Lecture 14: Diagnosing Infections
True or false when doing specimen...,
Swabs should be used for specimen...,
True or false decontamination pro...
53  cards
Lecture 18: Nervous System
True or false there is nf in your...,
____ inflammation of brain parenc...,
____ localized pyogenic infection...
60  cards
L15: Infections of Skin and Soft Tissues!
Which of the following biochemica...,
True or false coagulase is a bioc...,
Which biochemical test is used to...
96  cards
Lecture 16 and 17: GI Infections (!)
Which family of gram negative fac...,
Three ways the gi infections can ...,
What s the difference between dia...
102  cards
L15
Strep can best be visualized on _...,
True or false most bacteria can g...,
Macconkey agar is a selective and...
55  cards
L18
___ inflammation of meninges due ...,
True or false virus is most commo...,
What s the difference between sep...
39  cards
L19
True or false non bacterial agent...,
Bronchitis bronchiolitis and pneu...,
True or false oral and nasal cavi...
58  cards
L20: Urinary Tract and Genital Infections
Uti s or pyelonephritis refer to ...,
True or false urethritis may be d...,
Which four gram bacilli commonly ...
42  cards
L21: Intro to Medical Mycology
True or false fungi are prokaryot...,
Fungi can either be parasites or ...,
The fungal cell wall is rigid and...
33  cards
L22: Introduction to Human Fungal Infections
Most fungal pathogens are not com...,
True or false fungi are mostly op...,
True or false superficial mycoses...
46  cards
L23(Part1) - B
____ association in which one org...,
____ host which harbors adult sex...,
______ a vertebrate host that pro...
67  cards
L23 (Part II) - B
____ is the parasite known to be ...,
Which two stages are associated w...,
How does n fowleri cause pam
16  cards
L24 (Worm Parasites) - B
Four features of cestodes tapeworms,
What are three examples of tapeworms,
Which organism has the following ...
75  cards
L25 (Blood and Tissue Protozoans) - B
_____ an acute infectious disease...,
Which two ways can plasmodial par...,
Plasmodium vivax only infections ...
79  cards
L23 - CONDENSED
Which of the following has a trop...,
Which form of e histolytica allow...,
Which flagellate is the most comm...
27  cards
L 24 - CONDENSED
True or false cestodes tapeworms ...,
Both t solium pork and t saginata...,
2 grooved suckers a polar knob an...
41  cards
L 25 - CONDENSED
How is malaria transmitted,
True or false malaria is caused b...,
P vivax only infects which cell t...
45  cards
L 26 - 30
True or false viruses are obligat...,
Viral replication yields ___ whic...,
True or false viral genome is rna...
102  cards

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