MMI133 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Bacteria, Antibiotics, Immune System
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Spontaneous generation - the thought that living things could appear from non living things. Germ theory of disease - that microorganisms that spoil milk and broth could also affect living things, creating disease. Semmelweis - determined that medical employees were spreading germs through their facility, reason why one in a health care setting must wash their hands now. Pasteur - disproved spontaneous generation experimented with the growth and reduction of microorganisms. Koch - continued pasteur"s work by finding the causes of certain diseases (created koch"s postulates to confirm is the cause of the disease was a microorganism) Salk - developed the polio vaccine: size of microorganisms in the human body, we provide shelter and nutrients such as glycans in milk can be imbalanced due to antibiotic treatment, virulence factors (molecules from. Small - viruses, prions (smaller than viruses, infectious protein molecules that have been misfolded and does not function properly, e. g. mad cow disease)