Microbiology Exam #1 Guide

Bring a 882 and Scant­ron 2088-E (R1) (Green or Blue).

Sup­ple­ment to chap­ter 1

1. Impact of micro­bi­ol­ogy on human exis­tence today

2. What is microbiology?

3. His­tory of Microbiology

4. Phy­logeny reca­pit­u­lates ontogeny (Biogenesis)

5. The good, the bad and the really ugly sides to microbiology

6. Cul­ture and Sen­si­tiv­ity Test (The Clin­i­cal Requisition)

7. Ana­lyz­ing a case history

Sup­ple­ment to chap­ter 3 (microscopy/stains/culturing)

1. Meth­ods of Microbiology

2. Stain uses, types and applications

3. The Gram Stain Pro­ce­dure and its Role in the C&S

4. Crit­i­cal Val­ues Listing

5. Via­bil­ity Stains

6. Cul­tur­ing Bac­te­ria in the Clin­i­cal Lab

Chap­ter 4

Chap­ter 4 can go die. Okay no seri­ously, my raw notes are here and the pass­word is “smc”, they are full of spelling errors and you have to make sense of them by read­ing them and fig­ure out what slide he’s talk­ing about at the time.

Short answer questions

How long do our responses need to be?  “It’s not about length, I expect them to be com­plete.  That is why the ques­tions are given ahead of time.  Bul­let points are fine.  If your lan­guage writ­ing skills are some­what bad, then it’s eas­ier to just put bul­let points.”

1. What are emerg­ing infec­tious dis­eases and what are 5 fac­tors that con­tribute to their exis­tence? (Answer is in the first link for chap­ter 1 above)

2. Com­pare and con­trast the the­o­ries of bio­gen­e­sis and spon­ta­neous gen­e­sis.  Which is accepted as a cor­rect expla­na­tion for organ­isms?  Com­ment on the evi­dence for bio­gen­e­sis. (Answer is in the fourth link for chap­ter 1 above)

3. What are the Five I’s?  List these in the order as done.  Com­ment on any two of the five I’s.  What is the role of the five I’s in diag­no­sis and treat­ment? (Inoc­u­la­tion, Incu­ba­tion, Iso­la­tion, Inspec­tion, Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, it’s from that handout)

4. What is a case his­tory? What infor­ma­tion should be pro­vided in a case his­tory? Com­ment on the role of a case his­tory on the Dx/Tx of infec­tious diseases.

Exam Hints

“You’ll always get a clin­i­cal req­ui­si­tion from me.  Also, a case pre­sen­ta­tion. How some­thing relates to diag­no­sis and treatment.”

Mul­ti­ple choice ques­tions on your exam: What is the dif­fer­ence between a signs and symp­toms?  Are both preva­lent?  GRAM STAINS AND SEQUENCE OF EVENTS WILL BE ON TEST.  Know how to do a gram stain and how to inter­pret the infor­ma­tion.  Role of the gram stain in clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions (BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL THIS).  “I expect you to know the crit­i­cal val­ues.” (#4 of chap­ter 3 above)

 

A friendly reminder on Tues­day the 13^th, at 11:15am in Sci­ence 140 there’s a talk that’s part of the Dis­tin­guished sci­ence series on “Immune Cells in Can­cer and Stem Cells” by Dr. Jew­ett, a researcher from UCLA.