Medical Microbiology

174 3 GeneralBacteriology IntercellularMechanismsofGeneticVariability.......... Althoughbacteriahavenosexualheredityinthestricts ...

TheGeneticVariabilityofBacteria 175 Bacteriophagesarevirusesthatinfectbacteria(p. 1 82ff.).Duringtheirrep- licationprocess,DNAse ...

176 3 GeneralBacteriology Intheconjugationprocess,theconjugativeelementsthemselvesarewhat areprimarilytransferred.However,thesee ...

TheGeneticVariabilityofBacteria 177 theformationofconjugalpilionthesurfaceofFcellsandforthetransfer process.Thetransferoftheconj ...

178 3 GeneralBacteriology strictionendonucleasescandestroyforeignDNAthatbearsno“fingerprint” (modification)signifying“self.”Thes ...

TheGeneticVariabilityofBacteria 179 The techniquesimplifies thereplication ofDNA,makingexperimental manipulationseasier.Ontheoth ...

180 3 GeneralBacteriology Table3. 3 Continued:GlossaryofImportantTerminology... Invertedrepeats Nucleotidesequencesrepeatedinrev ...

TheGeneticVariabilityofBacteria 181 Table3. 3 Continued:GlossaryofImportantTerminology... Recombination, Illegitimate recombinat ...

182 3 GeneralBacteriology Bacteriophages..................................................... &Bacteriophages,orsimplyphages ...

Bacteriophages 183 Composition............................................... Phagesaremadeupofproteinandnucleicacid.Theproteins ...

184 3 GeneralBacteriology Reproduction.............................................. Thephagereproductionprocessinvolvesseverals ...

Bacteriophages 185 &Penetration.Injectionofthephagegenome.Enzymaticpenetrationofthe wallbythetailtubetipandinjectionofthenuc ...

186 3 GeneralBacteriology Lysogeny................................................... Fig.3. 26 illustratesthelysogenyofahostcel ...

ThePrinciplesofAntibioticTherapy 187 ThePrinciplesofAntibioticTherapy............................... &Specificantibacterialt ...

188 3 GeneralBacteriology therelationsbetweenananti-infectiveagent,thehostorganism,anda bacterialpathogen.Table3. 4 listsfrequen ...

ThePrinciplesofAntibioticTherapy 189 Table3. 4 FrequentlyUsedAnti-InfectiveAgents Class/activesubstance Remarks Aminoglycoside/a ...

190 3 GeneralBacteriology Table3. 4 Continued:FrequentlyUsedAnti-InfectiveAgents Class/activesubstance Remarks Group 2 cefuroxim ...

ThePrinciplesofAntibioticTherapy 191 Table3. 4 Continued:FrequentlyUsedAnti-InfectiveAgents Class/activesubstance Remarks Ethamb ...

192 3 GeneralBacteriology Table3. 4 Continued:FrequentlyUsedAnti-InfectiveAgents Class/activesubstance Remarks Monobactams Betal ...

ThePrinciplesofAntibioticTherapy 193 Table3. 4 Continued:FrequentlyUsedAnti-InfectiveAgents Class/activesubstance Remarks Penici ...