Mbi 111 exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Diseases caused by Streptococcus Pyogenes Answer Strep Throat Rheumatic Fever Glomerulonephritis Erysipelas Impetigo Septicemia Puerperal Sepsis Necrotizing Fasciitis Pneumonia Immunization and Treatment for Pneumonia Answer Vaccine based on polysaccharide. Protects against 90% of infections Treated with antibiotics Immunization and Treatment for Tuberculosis Answer BCG Vaccine Antibiotics for 6-9 months DOTS What conditions may lead a person to develop Pneumonia and Rheumati...

urinary tract infections: bacterial or viral correct answers bacterial UTI bacterial agents correct answers E. coli (more common), also Staphylococcus saprophyticus and Enterococcus How UTIs happen correct answers normal microbiota from large intestine and way to urethera and up bladder how are UTIs transmitted correct answers not transmitted person to person cystitis correct answers bladder infection (UTI) symptoms of cystitis (UTI) correct answers frequent urge to urinate, painf...

Vaccination results in A. Natural active immunity B. Natural passive immunity C. Artificial active immunity D. Artificial passive immunity correct answers C The transfer of antibodies from mother to developing fetus across the placenta or from mother to infant via breast milk results in A. Natural active immunity B. Natural passive immunity C. Artificial active immunity D. Artificial passive immunity correct answers B The PCV13 vaccine is made from antigenic sugar mol...

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/...

True Pathogen correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease in healthy people with normal immune defenses Opportunistic Pathogens correct answers Microbes capable of causing disease when the hosts defenses are compromised or normal microbiota that causes disease after entering part of the body where they do not belong Infectious Dose correct answers Minimum number of microbes required to cause an infection in a hose (ranges from one cell to billions of cells depending on microbial ty...

cell cytoplasm correct answers The genetic material (DNA) of a prokaryotic cell is found here Prokaryotic correct answers Which cells lack membrane-bound organelles? Coccus - Spherical, Bacillus - Rod shaped, Vibrio - Comma shaped, Spirillum - Wavy, Spirochete - Corkscrew shaped correct answers 5 common types of bacteria Flagella correct answers Used for movement (motility), Rigid structures that rotate like propellers (not wavelike); push cells along. Arrangement varies by species A...

What are the types of acquired immunity? Answer natural active natural passive artificial active artificial passive describe natural active immunity Answer -antigens enter body through infection -immune system actively responds -provides lifelong protection describe natural passive immunity Answer -antibodies made by mother's immune system -immune system is not involved -provides short term protection describe artificial active immunity Answer -antigens enter body through vaccin...

Antoine van Leewenhoek (1600s) correct answers developed simple microscopes, looked at fabric, "The Father of MBI", called bacteria "weeanimalcules" Ignaz Semmelweis (1840s) correct answers suspected that doctors were transmitting childbed fever to women during childbirth, required hand washing in chlorine solution John Snow (1850s) correct answers cholera, found that 500 fatal cases occurred in 10 days within 2500 yds. of a certain intersection, shut down the broad street pump and ide...

Antoine van Leewenhoek (1600s) Answer developed simple microscopes, looked at fabric, "The Father of MBI", called bacteria "weeanimalcules" Ignaz Semmelweis (1840s) Answer suspected that doctors were transmitting childbed fever to women during childbirth, required hand washing in chlorine solution John Snow (1850s) Answer cholera, found that 500 fatal cases occurred in 10 days within 2500 yds. of a certain intersection, shut down the broad street pump and identified the link b/n choler...

If a person's immune system is functioning properly and an immune system cell receptor interacts with a cell that has "self" markers on its surface, the immune system cell will correct answers Not initiate an attack against the "self" cell If a person's immune system cannot respond appropriately to non-self cells or molecules, the person is said to be correct answers Immunocompromised The non-specific defenses are also referred to as innate defenses. The term "innate" refers to the...