Microorganisms correct answers living things too small to see
Decomposition correct answers Breakdown of dead plants/animals
Bioremediation correct answers Intentional use of microbes to brake down waste
Normal Microbiota correct answers Microbes that live in/on the body which help protect...
MBI 111 Exam 1 Terms (Abshire) || All Correct.
Microorganisms correct answers living things too small to see
Decomposition correct answers Breakdown of dead plants/animals
Bioremediation correct answers Intentional use of microbes to brake down waste
Normal Microbiota correct answers Microbes that live in/on the body which help protect us from
harmful microbes
Nitrogen Fixation correct answers certain bacteria fix by removing Nitrogen from air (plants)
Photosynthesis correct answers Carbon Dioxide + Sun --> Oxygen + sugars/carbs consumed by
living things
Examples of foods produced by positive microbes correct answers Beer, Wine, Cheese
True Pathogens correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease in healthy people with
normal immune defenses
Opportunistic Pathogens correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease when immune
defenses are compromised
Infectious dose correct answers Minimum # of microbes required to cause an infection
Acute Infection correct answers Infection that develops quickly
Chronic Infection correct answers Infection that progresses/persists
Communicable disease correct answers disease where pathogens spread host to host
Non-communicable disease correct answers does not spread host to host
Latent disease correct answers agent remains inactive for a while, later becomes active
Sequelae correct answers Long term or permanent damage to tissue/organs after disease
Etiology correct answers Cause of disease
Subclinical Infection correct answers NO symptoms of disease
Endogenous Infection correct answers Infection caused by normal microbiota
Exogenous Infection correct answers Infection caused by pathogenic microbes originating
outside the host
, Localized Infection correct answers Invading microbes are limited to small part of body
Systemic infection correct answers invading microbes or microbial products spread throughout
body
Focal infection correct answers invading microbes "breaks loose" and carried to other tissues
Mixed infection correct answers infection involving more than one type of microbe
Endemic correct answers occurring at an expected level
Epidemic correct answers occurring in excess
Pandemic correct answers world wide epidemic
Incidence correct answers # of new cases
Prevalence correct answers # of cases existing
Symptoms correct answers Things one feels but cannot be measured
Signs correct answers Body changes healthcare worker can measure
5 stages; Cause of Infection correct answers Initial exposure-> Intensity of symptoms ->
incubation -> prodromal -> stage period of invasion -> convalescent period
Incubation stage correct answers Time from initial contact with the infectious agent at the portal
of entry to the appearance of the first symptoms
Prodromal stage correct answers Short period of mild, early symptoms such as fatigue or minor
head or muscle aches
Period of invasion stage correct answers sings/symptoms are present, the immune system and/or
treatment either overcomes the pathogen or death of the patient occurs
Secondary Infection correct answers 2nd microbe MIGHT take advantage of weakened immune
system. Sometimes more dangerous than primary infection.
Convalescent period correct answers Strength/health returns
3 relationships between Microbes/Humans correct answers Comensalism/Mutalism/Parasitism
Host correct answers Person or animal microbe is living
Disease correct answers any deviation from health
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