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robert whittaker
five kingdom taxonomy
carl woese
three domains based on rRNA sequences
Louis Pasteur
germ theory of Disease
Robert Koch
sequenced experimental steps for directly relating a specific microbe to a specific disease
Dmitri Iwanowski
Discovered the presence of viruses
Ignaz Semmelweis
Reduced childbed fever
Joseph Lister
Introduced aseptic techniques in surgery (listerine)
Edward Jenner
Began the field of Immunology (smallbox)
Paul Ehrlich
Began the science of Chemotherapy (first to use arsenic)
Alexander Fleming
Discovered the first antibiotic (penicillin)
what are 3 characteristics of Chlamydias?
obiligate intracellular parasites, cause sexually transmitted disease, gram negative coccoid bacteria
pelvic inflammatory disease
is an outcome of a chlamydia infection in females
the reticulate body seen in Chlamydia infections
is the large actively dividing non-infectious form
what is the difference between elementary body and reticulate body in chlamydia?
elementary body is the infectious form and reticulate body is the large activily dividing non infectious form.
mycoplasma pneumonia is a respiratory infection that is
called walking pneumonia in young adults
what are 3 characteristics of the genus Mycoplasma
lack cell walls, pleomorphic, colonize membranes of the respiratory tract.
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2013-03-20T02:02:52Z
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