1. Epidemic disease: When many people in a given area acquire the disease in a relatively short period of time.
2. Droplet infection: Occurs when microorganisms are carried on liquid drops from a cough or sneeze.
3. Thallus: macroscopic mold colony that is composed of a mass of strands called mycelia
4. Reducing media: special media that provide better anaerobic culturing conditions.
5. Degerming: Removal of microbes by mechanical means. Example: hand washing, alcohol swabbing at site injections.
6. Sanitization: Removal of pathogens from objects to meet public health standards.
7. Sterilization: Destruction of all microorganisms and viruses in or on an object.
8. Synergism: A process that allow one drug to sometimes enhance the effect of a second drug.
9. Dynoflagellates: Group of alveolates, unicellular microbes that have photosynthetic pigments, such as carotene an chlorophylls.
10. Arthropod vectors: Animals that carry pathogens an have segmented bodies, hard external skeletons, and jointed legs.
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