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What is Microbiology?
Microbes, or microorganisms are minute living things that are usually
unable to be viewed with the naked eye.
What are some examples of microbes?
Some are pathogenic - “Germ” refers to a rapidly growing cell.
BacteriaFungi
Protozoa (Protists)Algae
Viruses
Microbes – What are they good for?
• Decompose organic waste
• Are producers in the ecosystem by photosynthesis
• Produce industrial chemicals such as ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and acetone
• Produce fermented foods such as vinegar, cheese, and bread
What is Microbiology?
Knowledge of Microbes allows humans to
Prevent food spoilage
Diagnose/Treat/Prevent disease occurrence
• Led to aseptic techniques to prevent contamination in
medicine and in microbiology laboratories.
What is Microbiology?
Worldwide Infections Disease Statistics
Virology
• tremendous variation- host cell type
- genetic material
- infection cycle
• living or not?
A young milkmaid informed the physician Edward Jenner that she could not get
smallpox because she had already been sick from cowpox.
1796: Edward Jenner inoculated a person with cowpox virus. The person was then
protected from smallpox.
Called vaccination from vacca for cow
The protection is called immunity
History of Microbiology
The Emergence of Special Fields of Microbiology
• Immunology
• Virology
• Chemotherapy
• Microbial Genetics
Immunology
Vaccines
Provide an antigenic stimulus that does not cause disease but
can produce long lasting, protective immunity
Therapeutic Cloning
(embryo/human cloning)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
Bacterial Shapes
Average size: 0.2 -1.0 µm 2 - 8 µm
Basic shapes:
Singular Plural Shape
Coccus (cocci) = spherical
Bacillus (bacilli) = rod-shaped
Spirillum (spirilla) = wavy shaped
Cocci Bacilli (Rod-shaped) Spirilla
• Part of the Cell Envelope
• External to the Cell Wall
The Glycocalyx
Coating of molecules external to the cell wall, made of sugars and/or proteins
Two types
1. Capsule - highly organized, tightly attached - thickest
2. Slime layer - loosely organized and attached - thinnest
Functions
Attachment – (to other cells and surfaces)
Protection
Inhibits killing (phagocytosis) by white blood cells
Resists dessication, viral infection, antibiotic uptake
Medically Important Biofilms
CDC estimate: 65% of human bacterial infections
– Dental plaque
– Infectious kidney stones
– Endocarditis
– Catheters
– Implants
– Cystic Fibrosis
Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacteria
Endospores
• Resting, dormant cells
• produced by some Gm+ genera: Clostridium, Bacillus & Sporosarcina
• Have a 2-phase life cycle – vegetative cell & an endospore
• sporulation -formation of endospores
• germination- return to vegetative growth
• hardiest of all life forms
• withstand extremes in heat, drying, freezing, radiation & chemicals not a means of reproduction
Internal Structures
Medical Significance of Endospores
• Bacillus anthracis - anthrax
– bioterrorism
• Clostridium
– C. tetani - tetanus
– C. botulinum - botulism
– C. perfringens - gas gangrene
C. perfringensC. botulinum
C. tetani
B. anthracis
Demo: Capusule Stain and Endospore Stain
Protista = Yellow
Protist Diversity
DiatomsUlva