Sorry for yet another question, but I'm having trouble finding a consolidated source for this (it's def not in FA!)
Conjugation, transduction, transformation, transposition for bacteria,
Recombination, reassortment, complementation, phenotypic mixing for viruses
I know what all these mean, but do we have to know specifically which bacteria/viruses do which?
From doing all the UW questions, looks like Strep Pneumo uses transformation to acquire new stuff, Diphtheria uses phage-mediated transfer, segmented viruses use reassortment... but what about everything else?
Aside from the ones I mentioned, is it really fair game for the USMLE to say "Bacteria X normally isn't infective but then is placed with bacteria Y and becomes infective. What's the usual mechanism?"
Or do they have to explain out what the mechanism is and then ask me to name the mechanism?
Anywhere I can find this info? Am I missing something big here, like they all the potential to do all of them? lol. Thank you all.
Conjugation, transduction, transformation, transposition for bacteria,
Recombination, reassortment, complementation, phenotypic mixing for viruses
I know what all these mean, but do we have to know specifically which bacteria/viruses do which?
From doing all the UW questions, looks like Strep Pneumo uses transformation to acquire new stuff, Diphtheria uses phage-mediated transfer, segmented viruses use reassortment... but what about everything else?
Aside from the ones I mentioned, is it really fair game for the USMLE to say "Bacteria X normally isn't infective but then is placed with bacteria Y and becomes infective. What's the usual mechanism?"
Or do they have to explain out what the mechanism is and then ask me to name the mechanism?
Anywhere I can find this info? Am I missing something big here, like they all the potential to do all of them? lol. Thank you all.
