[MICROM 442] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (109 pages long)
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Colonize (genetic attributes allow colonization or not) --> multiply --> High resolution information (detailed information) allows us to come up with detailed approaches. Good decisions are based on having good data. Differential staining properties (different organisms have different genetic compositions) Infectious dose failure to colonize with low levels of pathogen. Much of our normal microbiota came from mom at birth (birth canal); can also come from the medical personnel that was there at the time, and the environment we are exposed to. Taking antibiotics for a viral disease modifies normal microbiota. Carrier state: there is a pathogen present with no discernable aspects of symptoms. Origin: fetus is microbiologically sterile: resident bacteria are bacterial species that live on the human body and cause no harm, transient bacteria colonize the skin (bacteria, fungi, virus) Some microbiota can colonize and some cannot; microbial attributes determine the nature of microbiota.
