Cause and Transmission of Infectious Disease (HSC SSCE Biology): Flashcards
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Theory: life arises from non-living matter
Theory: life arises from non-living matter
Theory of spontaneous generation
Germ theory of disease: main principle
Germ theory of disease: main principle
Germs (microbes) cause disease
Koch's technique for growing micro-organisms in lab
Koch's technique for growing micro-organisms in lab
Agar plate technique
Criteria to identify disease-causing microbe (Koch)
Criteria to identify disease-causing microbe (Koch)
Koch's postulates
Bacterium causing tuberculosis (discovered by Koch)
Bacterium causing tuberculosis (discovered by Koch)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
What causes fermentation? (Pasteur's discovery)
What causes fermentation? (Pasteur's discovery)
Living organisms (microbes called yeasts)
Process: heating to kill disease-causing microbes
Process: heating to kill disease-causing microbes
Pasteurisation
What Pasteur's swan-necked flask experiments disproved
What Pasteur's swan-necked flask experiments disproved
Spontaneous generation
Pasteur's method: weaken bacteria for immunity
Pasteur's method: weaken bacteria for immunity
Attenuation (vaccine development)
First Pasteur vaccine used on humans
First Pasteur vaccine used on humans
Rabies vaccine