Immunity/Infection
Disease causing organisms.
What are pathogens?
The period of when bacteria or viruses are actively multiplying inside the body's cells; usually a period without symptoms of illness.
What is the incubation period?
Pathogens that cause infectious diseases include parasitic worms, protozoa, fungi, viruses, and ______.
What are bacteria?
Population that accounts for half of STI cases in the USA.
Who are those aged 15-24?
TEST/SAMPLE
HIV stands for ________.
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
The body's largest organ that prevents microorganisms from entering the body.
What is the skin?
The rapid spread of a disease of health condition.
What is an epidemic?
Organisms that cause the flu, chickenpox, and HIV/AIDS.
What are viruses?
The most prevalent bacterial STI in the USA.
What is chlamydia?
Treatment for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease).
What are antibiotics?
Operates through a network of white blood cells that protects the body when a threat arises.
What is the immune system?
A widespread epidemic.
What is a pandemic?
Drugs that either inhibit the growth of bacteria or kill them.
What are antibiotics?
An infection that can cause several diseases, including common warts, genital warts, and genital cancers.
What is HPV (Human Papillomavirus)?
______ occur when the immune system responds to harmless substances as fi they were dangerous pathogens.
What are allergic reactions?
Includes Phase 1 (Recognition), Phase 2 (Proliferation), Phase 3 (Elimination), and Phase 4 (Slowdown).
What is the immune response?
Before the Covid-19 outbreak, the last global pandemic was the 2009 outbreak of ________.
What is H1N1 influenza A virus?
An organism that reproduces by spores and causes conditions such as athlete's foot and jock itch.
What are fungi?
This STI progresses through several stages, with an early phase characterized by an ulcer called a chancre that appears within 10-90 days of exposure.
What is syphilis?
_______ diseases occur when the body identifies its own cells as foreign.
What are autoimmune diseases?
A specialized protein, produced by plasma cells, that can recognize specific antigens.
What is an antibody?
Disease can spread via indirect transmission, where animals or insects such as rats, ticks, and mosquitoes serve as ______, carrying the pathogen from one host to another.
What are vectors?
An emerging infectious disease transmitted by several species of the Aedes mosquitoes.
What is Zika disease?
Two highly contagious parasitic infections that are treated with topical medicines and/or oral mediations include pubic lice and ______.
What is scabies?
A bacterial infection, also known as lockjaw, that thrives in deep puncture wounds and produces a deadly toxin.
What is tetanus?