b. commensal.
c. the same in every individual.
d. parasitic.
11. Removing most of the microorganisms from the intestinal tract would
a. inhibit infections.
b. have no effect on health.
c. lead to diarrhea and maybe other diseases.
d. improve digestion.
12. Which of the following statements about normal microbiotas is not true?
a. Our bodies begin to acquire a normal microbiota within a week of birth.
b. Microbial communities, once established, remain constant throughout one’s lifetime.
c. At the cellular level, our bodies are approximately 50% bacteria.
d. Normal microbiotas can cause disease in humans.
13. Clostridium difficile is an example of
a. how antibiotic use can cause a disease by disturbing the gut microbiota.
b. how a shift in the bacterial microbiota of the gums can cause disease.
c. how a shift in the eukaryotic microbiota of the vaginal tract can cause disease.
d. a bacterium that is capable of surviving in the human stomach.
e. a bacterium that is normally carried in the human nose.
14. Helicobacter pylori is
a. a major component of the microbiota of the human small intestine.
b. a cause of ulcers in the human stomach.
c. responsible for most of the lactic acid production in the stomach.
d. allows yeast to overgrow after antibiotic treatment.
e. associated with gum disease and bad breath when a microbiota shift occurs.
15. The reservoir hypothesis refers to the
a. effect of antibiotics on the composition of the oral microbiota.
b. transfer of genes among bacteria in the human colon.
c. shifts in bacterial populations that are associated with diet.
d. differences in the prokaryotic-to-eukaryotic ratio.
e. presence of Gram-positive bacteria in the vaginal tract.
16. A normal microbiota in the duodenum is
a. similar to the microbiota in the stomach.
b. similar to the microbiota in the colon.
c. tolerant to acidic environments.
d. both A and C.
e. both B and C.
17. In the absence of the full complement of the normal microbiota, due to orally taken antibiotics, opportunistic microorganisms such as _______ can become established and cause disease.
a. Clostridium difficile
b. Proteus mirabilis
c. Staphylococcus aureus
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Solving Problems in Bacterial Pathogenesis
1. You are a researcher working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. After two years of effort, you have isolated in pure culture a new, highly virulent bacterium from duck feces that is responsible for several major outbreaks of deaths in mammalian wildlife from contaminated pond water in the South. Based on 16S rRNA sequence comparison, you have determined that this new bacterium is distantly related to the Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae, and you have named the new strain Vibrio birdsii. You find that ducks are apparently unaffected by V. birdsii. You suspect that V. birdsii may be part of the normal microbiota of ducks. To test this hypothesis, you set up an experiment to examine the host response to V. birdsii in germfree ducks. The results are summarized in the graph shown in Figure 1. Provide a detailed explanation and interpretation for the results. Do the results support the hypothesis? Provide a rationale for your answer.
Figure 1. Results.
2. Dental plaque is a biofilm consisting of a complex community of over 700 different bacterial species. Epidemiological evidence suggests that a population shift toward certain Gram-negative anaerobes is responsible for initiation and progression of periodontal diseases. Tannerella forsythia, a Gram-negative, filamentous, nonmotile, anaerobic bacterium, is also considered one of the pathogens implicated in contributing to advanced forms of periodontal disease in humans and is strongly associated with cases of severe periodontitis. It is found co-aggregated in periodontal pockets with other putative periodontal pathogens, such as Porphyromonas gingivalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum. Infection with T. forsythia induces alveolar bone resorption in a mouse infection model, in which the bacterium is inoculated under the gums of mice, followed by measuring for loss of dental bone. Considering that periodontal disease might be a community shift-type disease with multiple microbial participants, how might you use microbial community profiling methods to demonstrate the importance of the microbial community composition in contributing to the onset and maintenance of the diseased state? Set up the experiment first without using DNA sequencing approaches and then with using DNA sequencing approaches. Be sure to provide your rationale for method choice. From your results, how could you distinguish between a model of disease caused by a microbial community shift involving multiple microbes and one involving a single pathogen, such as T. forsythia or P. gingivalis, or a combination of both T. forsythia and P. gingivalis?
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