The primary, natural habitat of a pathogen where it continues to exist is called the ______.

The method of removing vegetative life forms from living surfaces is termed ______.

In the laboratory, inoculating loops are sterilized using ______.

If pathogen A is more resistant to an erythromycin disc on a Kirby-Bauer plate compared to pathogen B, then pathogen A will have a/an _____ zone of inhibition compared to pathogen B.

Hydrogen peroxide is _______.

Antimicrobial agents can target the cell wall by _______.

The infectious doses for various bacterial infections are listed in the table below. Which of these bacteria would likely have the greatest virulence? Bacterium Infectious Dose (ID) Mycobacterium tuberculosis 10 Neisseria gonorrhoeae 1,000 Vibrio cholerae 1,000,000,000 Salmonella enterica 10,000

You have inherited some old glass baby milk bottles from your grandmother, and you would like to use them instead of plastic bottles. The bottles are placed into a large metal container and placed in the oven at 325oF for about 2 hours. But you are impatient. What factor would you change if you wanted the sterilization to occur much faster?

The beta-lactam drugs known as penicillins and cephalosporins work by 

Which of the following diseases are notifiable in the United States?