Immune Response
Patrolling white blood cells detect what?
What are antigens
Chicken pox
What is virus?
I am known as the Father of Microbiology.
Who is Anthony van Leeuwenhoek?
Animals that carry a pathogen and transmit the pathogen to another species, such as to humans.
What is a vector?
An infectious agent is made of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat.
What is a virus?
__________ attach themselves to the antigens which marks them for ___________
What are antibodies and destruction
Toxoplasmosis
What is protozoan?
Proved his theory that Cholera was not caused by "bad air".
Who is John Snow?
An organism that provides nutrients and shelter to a parasite or pathogen.
What is host organism?
Parasitic animals that most commonly enter the body through the mouth or nose in the egg stage and then hatch, grow, and may reproduce within the host.
What is pathogenic worm?
What are macrophages and T cells.
Ring worm
What is fungi?
Popularized the practice of sterilizing medical instruments for surgery in the late 1800s.
Who is Joseph Lister?
Having the immune system defenses against infection by a particular pathogen caused disease.
What is Immune?
A single-celled prokaryotic organism that cause disease.
What is pathogenic bacteria?
_______ _________ will also kill any of your infected body cells too.
What are T cells?
Measles
What is virus?
Discovered a fungi that killed bacteria.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The study of the origin and nature of diseases
What is pathology
A single or multicellular eukaryotic organism that absorbs nutrients from the host organism.
Some white blood cells become ________ _______ which are cells that stay in the body to be ready to immediately destroy that same antigen when it tries to invade again
What are memory cells?
Cysticercosis
What is worm?
Realized that doctors were transmitting infections to their patients and instituted hand washing in the 1840s.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
A substance that is recognized by the immune system as foreign to the body and therefore triggers an immune system response.
What is an antigen?
A eukaryotic single-celled organisms that obtain nutrients from a host.
What are pathogenic protozoa?