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Microbiology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Microbes
        
        Found EVERYWHERE
        
        broader specific category for microscopic life
      - Germs
        
        Disease causing microbe
    - - Harmful
        
        disease
        
        food spoilage
      - Beneficial
        
        Normal flora
        
        photosynthesis
        
        commercial applictions
- - - - This allowed us to see microorganisms, so called the "invisible world"
        
        Which introduced the debate on spontaneous generation
  - - - All living things are composed of cells
  - - - This lead to aseptic techniques
        
        Standard techniques in laboratory that present contamination of unwanted microorganism
      - His work proved that microbes can not originate from non-living solutions
    - - Yeast can convert sugar to alcohol through the Fermentation process
        
        Fermentation: the absence of oxygen
      - Pasteurization: used to reduce the number of bacteria that causes spoilage and eliminate potential pathogens
- - - - Concepts
        
        Germ theory of disease: Microorganisms cause disease
        
        Ignaz Semmelweis: Handwashing- to prevent transmission of puerperal fever after childbirth
        
        Joseph Lister: Use phenol as a chemical disinfectant to prevent surgical wound infection
        
        Robert Koch: Proved that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps known as the KOCH'S POSTULATES, to prove that a specific microbe and cause a specific disease
  - - - Genetic engineering
      - DNA and Protein sequencing
      - Microbial classification based on genotypes
  - - - Identification of uncultivated microbes
      - New methods for rapid identification of microbes
      - Use of microbes for bioremediation
- - - - Diseases that reappear after they have been in a significant decline
      - may happen because of breakdown in public health measures for diseases that were once under control
      - can also happen when strains of known disease-causing organisms appear
    - - Effects reemergence
      - Example
        
        Overuse of antibiotics: this has led to disease causing organisms to be resistant to medicines- and allowed the return of diseases that once were treatable and controllable