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Introduction to Microbiology

Introduction to Microbiology. objectives. Define microbiology Describe the contributions of scientists to the conquest of disease Identify basic health care procedures used to prevent and control disease. Microbiology. Study of microscopic (living ) things E.g.

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Introduction to Microbiology

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  1. Introduction to Microbiology

  2. objectives • Define microbiology • Describe the contributions of scientists to the conquest of disease • Identify basic health care procedures used to prevent and control disease

  3. Microbiology • Study of microscopic (living ) things • E.g. viruses, bacteria, algae, protists, fungi

  4. History of Microbiology • 1590 – First compound light microscope Zacharias Janssen

  5. History • 1676 –first observation of bacteria “animalcules” Anton Von Leeuwenhoek

  6. Spontaneous generation or abiogenesis • Life can suddenly or spontaneously arise from decomposing nonliving matter

  7. Decaying meat gave rise to maggots • Sweat laden shirts stored with wheat in a dark area gave rise to mice • Hairs from horses tail when placed in water produced worms

  8. Lazzaro spallananzani Lazzaro spallanzani Performed experiments to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation. Conducted the boiled meat broth experiment in a sealed flask

  9. History • 1796 – First vaccine (smallpox) Edward Jenner

  10. History • 1857 – Germ Theory of Disease Louis Pasteur

  11. Oliver wendall holmes • Suggested that childbed fever a highly contagious disease, might be spread by the hands of doctors and nurses who went from one patient to another

  12. Ignaz phillipp semmelweis obstetrician • Sometime later, noted death rates of patients being visited by physicians and medical students who had come from morgue or autopsy room were much higher

  13. John Tyndall Developed a method of killing heat resistant bacteria

  14. History • 1867 Antiseptic Surgery Joseph Lister

  15. History • 1884 Koch’s Postulates of Disease Transmission Robert Koch

  16. Golden age of bacteriology • Pasteur, lister, and Koch • Pasteur institute paris 1888 • Germany infective disease institue Koch became professor

  17. History • 1929 Discovery of Penicillin (first antibiotic) Alexander Fleming

  18. History • 1938 – First Electron Microscope • The electron microscope is capable of magnifying biological specimens up to one million times. These computer enhanced images of 1. smallpox, 2. herpes simplex, and 3. mumps are magnified, respectively, 150,000, 150,000 and 90,000 times.

  19. History 1953 Structure of DNA Revealed Watson & Crick

  20. History 1954 Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk

  21. CHICKEN POX • 1995 • CONTRVERSIAL • Disease not serious enough to warrant vaccine • Effective about 10 years, child becoming adult and risk catching

  22. Haemophilus influenza type B • Must part of all infant/children • 2,4,6 months • Causes meningitis, pneumonia, pericarditis, osteomyelitis spread by respiratory secretions by direct person to person contact

  23. hepatitis • A,B,C,D,E,F,G alphabet soup • Cure not on horizon • Good hygiene, education • Hep C stealth disease blood to blood contact

  24. HIV/ Aids • Linked to several conditions • Karposis sarcoma • Pneumocystitis • Much research continues in the U.S and around the world

  25. Karposis sarcoma a rare skin cancer

  26. Emerging pathogens • Candida albicans • Coccidiodes immitis a soil fungus • Cryptospiridia • Tuberculosis

  27. Preventing infections • Majority of microorganisms are harmless • Prevention and control of disease is the responsibility of every member of the health care team • Most important good handwashing!!!!!

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