Microbiology
Organisms and diseases
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- 100
- Categories
- 14
- Price
- €1.29
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn microbiology as it is used: Gram stain and cell walls, the organisms and the one fact that explains each, immunity and vaccines, and the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.
The Gram stain is a century old and still the fastest useful thing anyone does to a sample. Thick wall or thin decides half of what happens next.
100 cards. The structural differences that explain treatment: why Gram-negatives are harder to reach, why spores survive boiling, why a biofilm on an implant means the implant comes out. Then the organisms themselves, with the single fact that makes each one behave as it does, followed by immunity, vaccines and the mechanisms of resistance.
Antibiotics do nothing to a virus, because they target structures viruses do not have. Prescribing them for a cold is the largest single driver of unnecessary resistance, and that card is in here for that reason.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Antimicrobials” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
What you learn
- Gram stain, walls, spores and biofilms
- The organisms, each with the fact that explains it
- Innate and adaptive immunity, and what vaccines use
- Resistance mechanisms and where they come from
- R nought, outbreaks and contact tracing
The categories
14 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Antimicrobials
- Control
- Epidemiology
- Foundations
- Fungi
- Genetics
- Identification
- Immunity
- Morphology
- Parasites
- Pathogens
- Practice
- Resistance
- Viruses
What you get
Here are three of the 100 cards you get when you buy the deck.
Question
What distinguishes a prokaryote from a eukaryote?
Answer
No membrane-bound nucleus.
Note
Bacteria and archaea are prokaryotes; everything else, including fungi, is eukaryotic.
Question
What does Gram staining distinguish?
Answer
Thick peptidoglycan walls from thin ones.
Note
Gram-positive holds the crystal violet and appears purple; Gram-negative takes the counterstain and appears pink.
Question
Why are Gram-negative bacteria harder to treat?
Answer
The outer membrane blocks many antibiotics.
Note
It also carries endotoxin, which is released when the cell dies.
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How many cards are in Microbiology?
100 cards, sorted into 14 categories.
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