Across
- 2. Initial antibiotic regimen of multiple broad spectrum antibiotics selected in the absence of definitive microbiological pathogen identification
- 3. Scientists who discovered the process of phagocytosis
- 5. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of these pathogens
- 6. Resistance to pathogen or infection
- 8. Using bacteriophages to treat a bacterial infection
- 11. Vaccine construct that uses a fragment of the pathogen to illicit an immune response
- 12. Science and art of preventing disease and promoting health through organized community efforts
- 18. Probiotic isolated from breast-fed infant feces
- 22. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was the first vaccine of this type that was approved by the FDA
- 24. Indirect protection of unimmunized person by a large portion of the population being immune and disrupting transmission
- 25. Scientist who discovered penicillin
- 26. Antifungal target
- 27. A narrow-spectrum antibiotics that possess a hydrophobic tail
- 28. Inhibits cell wall synthesis by binding to D-Ala-D-Ala on the peptidoglycan, blocking the transpeptidase
- 29. Food or supplement containing a live microorganism
Down
- 1. AKA Kirby-Bauer Test
- 4. The antibiotic resistance mechanism that arises if a mutation in the ribosome no longer allows the antibiotic to bind
- 5. Antivirals that prevent the release of new viruses
- 7. Antibiotic resistance mechanism when bacteria produces an enzyme that chemically breaks bonds in the antibiotic
- 9. Vaccine construct that contains an attenuated toxin
- 10. Treatment for recurrent C. difficile infection (rCDI)
- 13. Developed over 40 vaccines
- 14. Developed a smallpox vaccine
- 15. Inhibits RNA synthesis
- 16. e.g. Streptomycin
- 17. Inhibits cell wall synthesis by binding to transpeptidase
- 19. Best field of science in the whole wide world (in Anna's opinion)
- 20. Branch of immune system that is responsible to immunity
- 21. Prevention type that involves administering the HPV vaccine to adolescents
- 23. Foods (typically high-fiber foods) that act as food for human microflora
