This document provides an overview of microbiology and microorganisms. It discusses the key topics of microbial classification, the history of microbiology from early observations to modern developments, the roles of microbes in human welfare and disease, and examples of emerging infectious diseases. The document contains detailed information on bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and viruses presented over multiple pages of text and figures.
Medical microbiology is the study of causative agents of infectious diseases of humans and their reactions to such infections. In other words it deals with etiology, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis, specific treatment and control of infection (immunization).
Medical microbiology is the study of causative agents of infectious diseases of humans and their reactions to such infections. In other words it deals with etiology, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis, specific treatment and control of infection (immunization).
Microbiology:
Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms and their activities
It considers the microscopic forms of life and deals about their
Reproduction and physiology
participation in the process of nature
helpful and harmful relationship with other living things
significance in science and industry
Growth of bacteria is affected by many factors such as nutrition concentration and other environmental factors.
Some of the important factors affecting bacterial growth are:
Nutrition concentration
Temperature
Gaseous concentration
pH
Ions and salt concentration
Available water
Microbiology:
Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms and their activities
It considers the microscopic forms of life and deals about their
Reproduction and physiology
participation in the process of nature
helpful and harmful relationship with other living things
significance in science and industry
Growth of bacteria is affected by many factors such as nutrition concentration and other environmental factors.
Some of the important factors affecting bacterial growth are:
Nutrition concentration
Temperature
Gaseous concentration
pH
Ions and salt concentration
Available water
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Organization/Components/Functions
The immune system is organized into discrete compartments to provide the milieu for the development and maintenance of effective immunity. Those two overlapping compartments: the lymphoid and reticuloendothelial systems (RES) house the principal immunologic cells, the leukocytes. Leukocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells in the bone marrow during postnatal life include neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes and macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and T and B lymphocytes. Hematopoietic and lymphoid precursor cells are derived from pluripotent stem cells. Cells that are specifically committed to each type of leukocyte (colony-forming units) are consequently produced with the assistance of special stimulating factors (e.g. cytokines).
Cells of the immune system intercommunicate by ligand-receptor interactions between cells and/or via secreted molecules called cytokines. Cytokines produced by lymphocytes are termed lymphokines (i.e., interleukins and interferon-γ) and those produced by monocytes and macrophages are termed monokines.
Lymphoid System
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MMICROBBIOLOGY
Dr. Abdelraouf A. ElmanamaDr. Abdelraouf A. Elmanama
Ph. D MicrobiologyPh. D Microbiology
2008
Chapter 1Chapter 1
Introduction to MicrobiologyIntroduction to Microbiology
2. 2008
Microbes in Our Lives
• Microorganisms are organisms that are too
small to be seen with the naked eye.
• “Germ” refers to a rapidly growing cell.
3. 2008
• Decompose organic waste
• Are producers in the ecosystem by photosynthesis
• Produce industrial chemicals such as ethyl alcohol and
acetone
• Produce fermented foods such as vinegar, cheese,
and bread
Microorganisms:
4. 2008
• Produce products used in manufacturing (e.g., cellulase)
and treatment (e.g., insulin)
• A few are pathogenic, disease-causing
Microorganisms:
5. 2008
• Allows humans to
• Prevent food spoilage
• Prevent disease occurrence
• Led to aseptic techniques to prevent contamination in
medicine and in microbiology laboratories.
Knowledge of microorganisms:
7. 2008
• Are italicized or underlined. The genus is capitalized
and the species is lower case.
• Are “Latinized” and used worldwide.
• May be descriptive or honor a scientist.
Scientific names
8. 2008
• Staphylococcus aureus
• Describes the clustered arrangement of the cells
(staphylo-) and the golden color of the colonies.
Scientific names
9. 2008
• Escherichia coli
• Honors the discoverer, Theodor Eshcerich, and
describes the bacterium’s habitat, the large intestine
or colon.
Scientific names
10. 2008
• After the first use, scientific names may be abbreviated
with the first letter of the genus and the species:
• Staphylococcus aureus and Esherichia coli are
found in the human body. S. aureus is on skin and
E. coli, in the large intestine.
Scientific names
11. 2008
• Prokaryotes
• Peptidoglycan cell walls
• Binary fission
• For energy, use organic
chemicals, inorganic
chemicals, or
photosynthesis
Bacteria
Figure 1.1a
13. 2008
• Eukaryotes
• Chitin cell walls
• Use organic chemicals
for energy
• Molds and mushrooms
are multicellular
consisting of masses of
mycelia, which are
composed of filaments
called hyphae
• Yeasts are unicellular
Fungi
Figure 1.1b
14. 2008
• Eukaryotes
• Absorb or ingest organic
chemicals
• May be motile via
pseudopods, cilia, or
flagella
Protozoa
Figure 1.1c
15. 2008
• Eukaryotes
• Cellulose cell walls
• Use photosynthesis for
energy
• Produce molecular
oxygen and organic
compounds
Algae
Figure 1.1d
16. 2008
• Acellular
• Consist of DNA or RNA
core
• Core is surrounded by a
protein coat
• Coat may be enclosed in
a lipid envelope
• Viruses are replicated
only when they are in a
living host cell
Viruses
Figure 1.1e
17. 2008
• Eukaryote
• Multicellular animals
• Parasitic flatworms
and round worms
are called helminths.
• Microscopic stages
in life cycles.
Multicellular Animal Parasites
Figure 12.28
19. 2008
A Brief History of Microbiology
• Ancestors of bacteria were the first life on Earth.
• The first microbes were observed in 1673.
20. 2008
• In 1665, Robert Hooke reported that living things were
composed of little boxes or cells.
• In 1858, Rudolf Virchow said cells arise from
preexisting cells.
• Cell Theory. All living things are composed of cells
and come from preexisting cells
The First Observations
21. 2008
• 1673-1723, Antoni van
Leeuwenhoek described
live microorganisms that
he observed in teeth
scrapings, rain water, and
peppercorn infusions.
The First Observations
Figure 1.2b
22. 2008
• The hypothesis that living organisms arise from
nonliving matter is called spontaneous generation.
According to spontaneous generation, a “vital force’
Forms life.
• The Alternative hypothesis, that the living organisms
arise from preexisting life, is called biogenesis.
The Debate Over Spontaneous Generation
23. 2008
• 1668: Francisco Redi filled six jars with decaying
meat.
Evidence Pro and Con
Conditions Results
3 jars covered with fine net No maggots
3 open jars Maggots appeared
From where did the maggots come?
What was the purpose of the sealed jars?
Spontaneous generation or biogenesis?
24. 2008
• 1745: John Needham put boiled nutrient broth into
covered flasks.
Evidence Pro and Con
Conditions Results
Nutrient broth heated, then
placed in sealed flask
Microbial growth
From where did the microbes come?
Spontaneous generation or biogenesis?
25. 2008
• 1765: Lazzaro Spallanzani boiled nutrient solutions in
flasks.
Evidence Pro and Con
Conditions Results
Nutrient broth placed in flask,
heated, then sealed
No microbial growth
Spontaneous generation or biogenesis?
26. 2008
• 1861: Louis Pasteur demonstrated that
microorganisms are present in the air.
Evidence Pro and Con
Conditions Results
Nutrient broth placed in flask,
heated, not sealed
Microbial growth
Nutrient broth placed in flask,
heated, then sealed
No microbial growth
Spontaneous generation or biogenesis?
27. 2008
• Pasteur’s S-shaped flask kept microbes out but let
air in.
The Theory of Biogenesis
Figure 1.3
29. 2008
The Golden Age of Microbiology
• 1857-1914
• Beginning with Pasteur’s work, discoveries
included the relationship between microbes and
disease, immunity, and antimicrobial drugs
30. 2008
• Pasteur showed that microbes are responsible for
fermentation.
• Fermentation is the conversation of sugar to alcohol to
make beer and wine.
• Microbial growth is also responsible for spoilage of
food.
• Bacteria that use alcohol and produce acetic acid spoil
wine by turning it to vinegar (acetic acid).
Fermentation and Pasteurization
31. 2008
• Pasteur demonstrated that
these spoilage bacteria could
be killed by heat that was not
hot enough to evaporate the
alcohol in wine. This application
of a high heat for a short time is
called pasteurization.
Fermentation and Pasteurization
Figure 1.4
32. 2008
• 1835: Agostino Bassi showed a silkworm disease was
caused by a fungus.
• 1865: Pasteur believed that another silkworm disease
was caused by a protozoan.
• 1840s: Ignaz Semmelwise advocated handwashing to
prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one OB
patient to another.
The Germ Theory of Disease
33. 2008
• 1860s: Joseph Lister used a chemical disinfectant to
prevent surgical wound infections after looking at
Pasteur’s work showing microbes are in the air, can
spoil food, and cause animal diseases.
• 1876: Robert Koch provided proof that a bacterium
causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps,
Koch’s postulates, used to prove that a specific
microbe causes a specific disease.
The Germ Theory of Disease
34. 2008
• 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
Vaccination
35. 2008
• Treatment with chemicals is chemotherapy.
• Chemotherapeutic agents used to treat infectious
disease can be synthetic drugs or antibiotics.
• Antibiotics are chemicals produced by bacteria and
fungi that inhibit or kill other microbes.
• Quinine from tree bark was long used to treat malaria.
• 1910: Paul Ehrlich developed a synthetic arsenic drug,
salvarsan, to treat syphilis.
• 1930s: Sulfonamides were synthesized.
The Birth of Modern Chemotherapy
36. 2008
• 1928: Alexander Fleming
discovered the first
antibiotic.
• He observed that
Penicillium fungus made
an antibiotic, penicillin,
that killed S. aureus.
• 1940s: Penicillin was
tested clinically and mass
produced.
The Birth of Modern Chemotherapy
Figure 1.5
37. 2008
• Bacteriology is the study of bacteria.
• Mycology is the study of fungi.
• Parasitology is the study of protozoa and parasitic
worms.
• Recent advances in genomics, the study of an
organism’s genes, have provided new tools for
classifying microorganisms.
Modern Developments in Microbiology
38. 2008
• Immunology is the study of
immunity. Vaccines and
interferons are being
investigated to prevent and
cure viral diseases.
• The use of immunology to
identify some bacteria
according to serotypes
(variants within a species) was
proposed by Rebecca
Lancefield in 1933.
Modern Developments in Microbiology
39. 2008
• Virology is the study of viruses.
• Recombinant DNA is DNA made from two different
sources. In the 1960s, Paul Berg inserted animal DNA
into bacterial DNA and the bacteria produced an
animal protein.
• Recombinant DNA technology or genetic engineering
involves microbial genetics and molecular biology.
Modern Developments in Microbiology
40. 2008
• Using microbes
• George Beadle and Edward Tatum showed that
genes encode a cell’s enzymes (1942)
• Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty
showed that DNA was the hereditary material
(1944).
• Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod discovered the
role of mRNA in protein synthesis (1961).
Modern Developments in Microbiology
41. 2008
* The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Selected Novel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine
1901* von Behring Diphtheria antitoxin
1902 Ross Malaria transmission
1905 Koch TB bacterium
1908 Metchnikoff Phagocytes
1945 Fleming, Chain, Florey Penicillin
1952 Waksman Streptomycin
1969 Delbrück, Hershey, Luria Viral replication
1987 Tonegawa Antibody genetics
1997 Prusiner Prions
42. 2008
Microbes and Human Welfare
• Microbial Ecology
• Bacteria recycle carbon, nutrients, sulfur, and
phosphorus that can be used by plants and animals.
43. 2008
• Bacteria degrade organic
matter in sewage.
• Bacteria degrade or
detoxify pollutants such
as oil and mercury
Bioremediation
44. 2008
• Microbes that are pathogenic to insects are
alternatives to chemical pesticides to prevent insect
damage to agricultural crops and disease
transmission.
• Bacillus thuringiensis infections are fatal in many
insects but harmless to other animals including
humans and to plants.
Biological Insecticides
45. 2008
• Biotechnology, the use of microbes to produce foods
and chemicals, is centuries old.
• Genetic engineering is a new technique for
biotechnology. Through genetic engineering, bacteria
and fungi can produce a variety of proteins including
vaccines and enzymes.
• Missing or defective genes in human cells can be
replaced in gene therapy.
• Genetically modified bacteria are used to protect crops
from insects and freezing.
Modern Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
46. 2008
• Bacteria were once classified as plants which gave rise
to use of the term flora for microbes.
• This term has been replaced by microbiota.
• Microbes normally present in and on the human body
are called normal microbiota.
Microbes and Human Disease
47. 2008
• Normal microbiota prevent growth of pathogens.
• Normal microbiota produce growth factors such as folic
acid and vitamin K.
• Resistance is the ability of the body to ward off
disease.
• Resistance factors include skin, stomach acid, and
antimicrobial chemicals.
Normal Microbiota
48. 2008
• When a pathogen overcomes the host’s resistance,
disease results.
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID): New diseases and
diseases increasing in incidence
Infectious Diseases
49. 2008
• West Nile encephalitis
• West Nile Virus
• First diagnosed in the West Nile region of Uganda in
1937.
• Appeared in New York City in 1999.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
50. 2008
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Prion
• Also causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
• New-variant CJD in humans related to cattle fed
sheep offal for protein.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
51. 2008
• Escherichia coli O57:H7
• Toxin-producing strain of E. coli
• Fist seen in 1982
• Leading cause of diarrhea worldwide.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
52. 2008
• Invasive group A Streptococcus
• Rapidly growing bacteria cause extensive tissue
damage.
• Increased incidence since 1995
Emerging Infectious Diseases
53. 2008
• Ebola hemorrhagic fever
• Ebola virus
• Causes fever, hemorrhaging, and blood clotting
• First identified near Ebola River, Congo
• Outbreak every few years
Emerging Infectious Diseases
54. 2008
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hantavirus
• Fist identified in 1951 in Korea as cause of
hemorrhagic fever and named for Hantaan River
• A new disease involving respiratory symptoms was
seen in the U.S. in 1995
• The U.S. virus, called Hantavirus Sin Nombre virus,
probably came to the U.S. with rats around 1900
Emerging Infectious Diseases
55. 2008
• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• First identified in 1981.
• Worldwide epidemic infecting 40 million people;
14,000 new infections everyday.
• Sexually transmitted disease affecting males and
females.
• In the U.S., HIV/AIDS in people 13-24 years of age:
44% are female and 63% are African American.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
56. 2008
• Anthrax
• Bacillus anthracis
• In 1877, Koch proved B. anthracis causes anthrax.
• Veterinarians and agricultural workers are at risk of
cutaneous anthrax.
• In 2001, dissemination of B. anthracis via mail
infected 22 people.
Emerging Infectious Diseases