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Identify microbe. Yeast or mold? Disease or use? |
Candida Albicans Yeast Yeast, thrush, UTIs |
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Identify microbe. Yeast or mold? Disease or use? |
Aspergillus spp. Mold Skin infections |
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Identify microbe. Yeast or mold? Disease or use? |
Penicillium Mold Antibiotic penicillum |
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Name fungus and reproduction Yeast or mold? Disease or use? |
Rhizopus - asexual Mold Skin infections |
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Name fungus and reproduction Yeast or mold? Disease or use? |
Rhizopus - sexual Mold Skin infections |
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Identify fungus Yeast or mold? Disease or use? |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast Bread yeast |
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What type of stain is an Acid-Fast Stain? |
Differential |
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What type of stain is Capsule Stain? |
Structural |
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In a capsule stain, what stains pink and what stains white? |
Background and cell is pink Capsule is white |
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Name two types of mycobacterium |
Tuberculosis and leperosy |
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What are the benefits of having a capsule? |
Offer extra protection Help form biofilms Retain water |
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Acid-Fast cells have waxy component to their cell walls called |
Mycolic Acid |
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The mycolic acid in the outer cell wall of an acid-fast cell are beneficial to the cells how? |
Retain water Resistant to things they are exposed to |
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What color does the Acid-Fast cell stain? If they are not Acid Fast, what color will they be? |
Red (gram will be pinker) Blue (gram will be dark purple color) |
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What type of stain is an endospore stain? |
Differential stain |
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Endospores contain ____________ & ______________ |
DNA and ribosomes |
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In an endospore stain, what color does the endospore and cell stain? |
Endospore stains light blue Cell stains pink |
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What 2 genera of microbes make endospores |
Bacillus Clostrididium |
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What type of stain is a flagella stain? |
Structural |
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What type of flagella arrangement is this? |
Lophotrichous |
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What type of flagella arrangement is this? |
Amphitrichous |
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What type of flagella arrangement is this? |
Monotrichous |
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What type of flagella arrangement is this? |
Peritrichous |
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What type of stain is this? Pink? Purple? |
Gram Pink: Gram - Cell membrane, thin cell wall, outer membrane Purple: Gram + cell membrane, thick cell wall |
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What cell arrangement is this? |
Streptococcus |
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What type of cell arrangement is this? |
Palisade |
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Basic stains are applied to bacterial smears that have been ___________ |
Heat-fixed |
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cell morphology, size, and arrangement can be determined using this type of stain |
Simple |
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The most commonly used differential stain |
Gram |
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What type of stain is this? |
Gram |
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leaving the decolorizer on too long and get reddish Gram-positive cells is called |
Over-decolorize |
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When you produce purple Gram-negative cells the mistake you made was... |
Under-decolorized |
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What is the time limit for doing a gram stain on organisms |
Under 24 hrs |
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Gram positive cells will appear what color? |
Purple |
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Gram negative cells will appear what color? |
Pink |
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What type of stain is this? |
Acid-Fast |
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What type of stain is this? |
Acid-Fast |
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What type of stain is this? |
Capsule |
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composed of mucoid polysaccharides or polypeptides that repel most stains because of their neutral charge |
Capsules |
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What type of stain is this? |
Capsule |
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The total absence of ________ within endospores is an indication of how dormant they are |
ATP |
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What type of stain is this? |
Endospore |
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What type of stain is this? |
Endospore |
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What type of stain is this? |
Endospore |
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What three places can the endospore be located within the cell? |
Terminal Middle Subterminal |
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What type of stain is this? |
Endospore |
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What type of stain is this? |
Flagella |
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Cannot make their own food |
Heterotrophs |
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Can have two forms |
Dimorphic |
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branch like structures on fungus |
Hyphae |
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Mold reproduces by ____________ either asexually or sexually |
spores |
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Where are spores located? |
End of hyphae |
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Why are yeast cells much larger than bacteria |
More organelles and they sprout |
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What yeast is this? And what is the arrow pointing to? |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Budding cell |
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What type of yeast is this? |
Candida albicans |
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A single fungal filament is called a |
hyphae |
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What are the black lines pointing to? |
Top Line: Hyphae Bottom Line: Spores |
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Name protozoan and form it is in |
Entamoeba Histolytica Cyst |
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Name protozoan and form |
Toxoplasma Gondii |
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Name protozoan and form |
Giardia lamblia Cyst |
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Name protozoan and form |
Giardia lamblia Trophozoite |
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Name protozoan |
Trichomonas vaginalis |
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Name protozoan |
Trypanosoma gambiense or brucei |
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Name protozoan |
Balantidium coli |
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single celled animal like protists |
Protozoans |
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How do you contract Giardia lamblia? |
Drinking contaminated water |
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What does Giardia Lamblia cause and what type of smear do you find it in? |
Diarrhea Fecal |
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What does Toxoplasma gondii look like if located extracellularly? |
Crescent moon |
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Contracted by cat feces or by eating undercooked red meat |
Toxoplasma gondii |
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What symptoms does Toxoplasma gondii cause? |
Flu-like symptoms Passes in utero to baby and it can go blind or develop mental disabilities |
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How do you catch plasmodium vivax and what type of smear do you find it in? |
Mosquito Blood smear |
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What does plasmodium vivax cause? |
Malaria |
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What is the other name for plasmodium vivax? |
Plasmodium falciparum |
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Where do you find plasmodium vivax in the body? |
Inside red blood cells or the plasma |
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What extracellular characteristics does giardia lamblia have? |
Flagella |
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What extracellular characteristics does amoeba proteus have? |
Pseudopods |
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Which of the protozoans that we studied is non-pathogenic |
Amoeba proteus |
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Name the 3 pathogenic amoebas |
Naegleria fowleri Acanthamoeba Balamuthia mandrillaris |
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Contracted by water rushing up the nose and the amoeba latches on to the olfactory nerves |
Naegleria fowleri |
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What does Naegleria fowleri cause? |
Encephalitis |
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How does naegleria fowleri move? |
Flagella and pseudopods |
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Acanthamoeba usually exists in _______ form but when it comes in contact with the ________ it turns into a ___________ which can lead to __________ |
cyst eye trophozoite blindness |
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This amoeba can be inhaled from dust/dirt and make its way to the brain from the lungs |
Balamuthia mandrillaris |
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What disease does balamuthia mandrillaris cause? |
Encephalitis |
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How do you contract Entamoeba histolytica and in what kind of smear do you find it in? |
Drinking contaminated water Fecal smear |
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How does Trichomonas vaginalis move? |
Flagella |
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What does Trichomonas vaginalis cause and in what type of smear do you find it in? |
Trichomoniasis But usually asymptomatic Vaginal |
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How does Balantidium coli move? |
Cilia |
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What disease does Balantidium coli cause and what kind of smear do you find it in? |
Diarrhea Fecal |
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How do you contract Balantidium coli? |
Drinking contaminated water |
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How do you contract Trypanosoma gambiense (brucei) and what smear do you find it in? |
TseTse fly or Kissing Bug (know both) Blood |
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How does Trypanosoma gambiense (brucei) move and what diseases does it cause? |
Flagella African Sleeping Sickness and Chaga's Disease (know both) |
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Name forms the following protozoans exist in: Giardia lamblia Toxoplasma gondii Plasmodium vivax Naegleria fowleri Acanthamoeba Balamuthia mandrillaris Entamoeba histolytica Trichomonas vaginalis Balantidium coli Trypanosoma brucei |
All exist in both forms only Trichomonas exists in Trophozoite Form |
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Name protozoan |
Toxoplasma gondii |
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Name protozoan and form |
Entamoeba histolytica Cyst |
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Name protozoan and form? |
Giardia lamblia Cyst |
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Name protozoan and form? |
Giardia lamblia Trophozoite |
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Name protozoan and form? |
Trichomonas vaginalis Trophozoite |
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Name protozoan and form? |
Balantidium coli |
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Name protozoan and form? What does it cause? |
Plasmodium falciparum Trophozoite Malaria |
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Name protozoan and form? |
Amoeba proteus Trophozoite |