100% satisfaction guarantee Immediately available after payment Both online and in PDF No strings attached
logo-home
Introduction to Clinical Microbiology $5.49   Add to cart

Class notes

Introduction to Clinical Microbiology

 2 views  0 purchase
  • Course
  • Institution
  • Book

These notes are intended to summarize and outline the part 1 of Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology. It should not be a substitute for the actual book. The notes includes: 1. Microbial Taxonomy 2. Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure 3. Host-Microorganism Interactions

Preview 3 out of 18  pages

  • May 29, 2021
  • 18
  • 2020/2021
  • Class notes
  • Estimada, k
  • Introduction to clinical microbiology
avatar-seller
introduction
to
microbiology
Brief History
Definition and
Scope
Basic Taxonomy
Bacterial Cytology
Symbiosis
Basic Biosafety
Reservoir and
Transmission
Epidemiology and
Microbial Control

Notes by: I.J Aquino, RMT, MLS (ASCPi); Source: Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology

, Brief History of
Microbiology
17th CENTURY
ZACHARIAS JANSSEN
- used two convex lenses in sequence to magnify an image
-forerunner of microscopes


FRANCESCO STELLUTI AND GIOVANI FABER
- coined the word "microscopio"
-means to see small



ROBERT HOOKE
-viewed a cork under the crude microscope
CORK = tiny cubicles = cella = CELLS


CELL THEORY: All living things are made up of living cells

ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK
-used the crude microscope to study the cloth he sells
-observed water from a marshy lake
-made better set of cells to observe his own feces
-published his findings through letters to the "Royal Society of London"
-determined the shapes of different animalcules (moving organisms)

COCCI BACILLI



SPONTANEOUS GENERATION (VITALISTS): life depends on a vital force. Nonliving
become living organisms.
**proof: putrefaction and decay**
-from dead meat arises maggots and flies


FRANCISCO REDI
-disproved the spontaneous generation theory with an experiment


with gauze with gauze




2 jars with rotten meat inside, maggots found inside jar without gauze,
one covered with gauze then outside with the gauze




JOHN NEEDHAM
- clergyman that wanted to disprove Francisco Redi
-micro-organisms do not grow from eggs and proposed a theory of
spontaneous generation

Notes by: I.J Aquino, RMT, MLS (ASCPi); Source: Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology

, Brief History of
Microbiology


LAZZARO SPALLANZANI
-proposed that microbes move through the air and that they could be
killed through boiling.


ANTONE LAURENT LAVOISIER
-oxygen was a key substance in combustion and life
-gave the element its name


EDWARD JENNER
-proposals on disease prevention
-smallpox epidemic in China and India caused by the Variola virus
-he collected the crusts of the lesions, dried it then powderized them to
be rubbed to patients as protection.
VARIOLATION: the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals
against smallpox
-observed that cowmaids did not contract smallpox when they have had
cowpox already

VACCINATION: the method of inoculation of vaccinia (cowpox) to provide
immunity to smallpox

18th CENTURY
JOHN YARWELL AND JOHN MARSHALL
-microscope designers that made breakthrough with microscope optics


CHRISTIAN EHRENBERG
-coined the term 'bakterion' meaning little rods

19th CENTURY
JAKOB HENLE
-proposed that living organisms cause diseases
-wrote about in an essay entitled: "On Miasma en Contagia"


IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS
-promoted HANDWASHING using chlorine water when delivering babies
-prevented puerperal fever or childbed fever
-"Saviour of Mothers"


JOHN SNOW
-cholera is water or food borne and not miasma (bad air)
-observations made in Soho District and concluded that if cholera is
caused by miasma, pulmonary symptoms should appear and not GI
symptoms





Notes by: I.J Aquino, RMT, MLS (ASCPi); Source: Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology

The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.

Quick and easy check-out

Quick and easy check-out

You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.

Focus on what matters

Focus on what matters

Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!

Frequently asked questions

What do I get when I buy this document?

You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.

Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?

Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.

Who am I buying these notes from?

Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller irisjoylxd. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.

Will I be stuck with a subscription?

No, you only buy these notes for $5.49. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.

Can Stuvia be trusted?

4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

75759 documents were sold in the last 30 days

Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 14 years now

Start selling
$5.49
  • (0)
  Add to cart