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MMBB 154
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 3
04/16/2012

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What is the difference between Sterilization & Sanitation?
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Sterilization is the destruction of all living microbes, spores, and viruses. Sanitation reduced the numbers of pathogens or discourages their growth.
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When does an object become "unsterile"?
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A sterile object becomes contaminated when it comes in contact with AIR.
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How does moist heat kill microbes?
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It denatures their proteins
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True or False: Boiling water may not kill all spores or inactivate all viruses?
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True
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What does pasteurization do to bacterial populations in food and drink?
Definition
It reduces the chances of spoilage and disease
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True or False: Bacterial spores are not affected by pasteurization?
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True
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What is the best coverage of UV light used to control microbial growth?
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100 - 400 nm
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What is the flash pasteurization method?
Definition
71.6 degrees C for 15 seconds
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What is the holding (or batch) method for pasteurizing?
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Involves heating at 63 degrees C for 30 minutes. Although any thermophilic bacteria would thrive at this temperature, they are of little consequence because they cannot grow at body temperatures.
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What is pasteurization?
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Reduces the bacterial population of a liquid such as milk and destroys organisms that my cause spoilage andn human disease.
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True of False: UV light can be bactericidal?
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True
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True of False: X rays and gamma rays also are microbicidals?
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True
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What involves preserving a microorganisms in food by removing the water necessary for microbes to live?
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Drying
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What preserving method causes water to diffuse out of organisms, causing dehydration and death?
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Salting
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What preserving method lowers microbial metabolic and growth rates, retarding spoilage?
Definition
Low temperature
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True of False: chemical agents always achieve sterilization?
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False, they rarely achieve sterilization
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Although chemical agents do not always achieve sterilization, what do they do?
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They disinfect( destroy pathogens)
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What are used to destroy pathogens on living tissue?
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Antiseptics
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What means to reduce microbial population to a safe level?
Definition
sanitizing
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What term refers to removing organisms from an object's surface?
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Degerming
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What are the qualities of antiseptics and disinfectants?
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  • Able to kill or slow growth of microbes
  • Nontoxic to humans and animals
  • Soluble to water
  • Storable
  • Effective quickly and at low concentration
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What is important when choosing an agent?
Definition
  • Temperature
  • pH
  • Duration of disinfection
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When evaluating the effectiveness of antispectics and disinfectants, what indicates the disinfecting ability compared to that of phenol?
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The Phenol coefficient (PC)
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What is the Phenol Coefficient (PC)
Definition
An in-use test to compare samples substrate before and after disinfection
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What are antibiotics derived from?
Definition
living organisms
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What do semi-synthetic drugs include?
Definition
Synthetic and Antibiotic elements
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Who originated the concept of selective toxicity?
Definition
Paul Ehrlich
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What red industrial dye was found to inhibit some Gram-positive bacterial species?
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Prontosil
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Who discovered arsphenamine for use against the syphilis spirochete?
Definition
Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata
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Who had the serendipitous discovery of penicillin and also ushered in the era of antibiotics?
Definition
Alexander Fleming
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Who believed that chance favors the prepared mind?
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Fleming, Florey, and Chain
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What is penicillin?
Definition
mold that produces a substance that kills Gram-positive bacteria
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What does Selective toxicity mean?
Definition
That a drug should harm the pathogen but not the host
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What does the toxic dose of a drug do to the host?
Definition
It is the concentration that causes harm to the host
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What does the therapeutic dose do to the host?
Definition
Nothing, this concentration eliminates the pathogen
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Together, what do the toxic dose and therapeutic dose do?
Definition
They are used to formulate the chemotherapeutic index
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True or False: Do narrow spectrum drugs affect all pathogens?
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False; they only affect a few pathogens
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What group does broad spectrum durgs affect?
Definition
Taxonomic groups
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What does bacteria synthesize folic acid from?
Definition
para-aminobenzoic acid
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This synthetic antimicrobial interferes with mycolic acid synthesis in species of mycobacterium
Definition
Isoniazid
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What synthetic antimicrobial blocks DNA synthesis in bacteria?
Definition
Quinolones
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What is the range for which drugs will work against pathogens?
Definition
This is called the antimicrobial spectrum
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What do sulfanilmide and other sulfonamides (Sulfa drugs) do?
Definition
They target specific metabolic reactions (bactrin used in urinary tract infections)
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What does sulfonamides do in a bacterial enzyme?
Definition
They out compete essential folic acid components for binding sites
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How do sulfanomides out compete the essential folic acids?
Definition
They prevent nucleic acid synthesis and DNA replication
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What is the most widely used antibiotic
Definition
Penicillin
Term
How does penicillin cause the cell the burst?
Definition
They interfere with cell wall synthesis
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Why do some individuals experience an anaphylactic allergic reaction when taking penicillin?
Definition
They have inherited a protein that binds penicillin and appears as a foreign molecule to the immune system
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Define beta-lactamases
Definition
This is what many penicillin-resistant species produce that inactivates penicillin
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What may be a broader spectrum alternative to penicillin?
Definition
Cephalosporins
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What two elements are Cephalosporins derived from?
Definition

It is derived from Fungi

  • Keflex
  • Keflin
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What bacterially produced antibiotic inhibits cell wall synthesis?
Definition
Vancomycin
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What may be some side effects using Vancomycin?
Definition
Damage to ear and kidneys
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What are Vancomycin effective against?
Definition
Gram positive bacteria such as... staphylococci
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What are the four mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance?
Definition
  1. Resistance to sufanamides may develop if the bacterial enzyme changes or if the bacteria evolves an alternate metabolic pathway
  2. Bacteria may evolve the abililty to enzymatically inactivate an antibiotic
  3. Bacteria may evolve the ability to prevent drug entry into the cytoplasm or to pump the drug out of the cytoplasm
  4. Bacteria can evolve changes in drug targets like ribosomes or enzymes involved in replication
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What microbe produces aflatoxins that accumulate in grains, nuts, and corn?
Definition
Aspergillus flavus
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