Antimicrobial Drugs
Responsible for killing off bacteria
What is Bactericidal
Physiological process coordinated by the immune system to eliminate antigens
What is Immune Response
Ability of an antigen to successfully trigger an immune response
What is immunogenicity
Viruses that infect bacteria
What is Bacteriophages
Designer of the compound microscope and contributed to the idea of cell theory
What is Robert Hooke
Itchy, red flush spreading over skin
What is Red man syndrome
Subcategorized as mechanical, chemical, and physical barriers
What is First-line Defenses
Incomplete antigens that are unable to stimulate an immune response unless they are linked to a more complex protein or polysaccharide
What is Haptens
Single infectious virus particle that has an exterior protective protein capsid
What is Virion
French scientist who showed the effectiveness of a sterilization technique
What is Louis Pasteur
Ratio of the maximum tolerated or safe dose to the minimum effective or therapeutic dose
What is Therapeutic Index
Collection of tissues and organs that collect, circulate, and filter fluid in body tissues before being returned to the blood
What is Lymphatic System
Antigens that are especially potent T helper cell activators
What is Superantigens
Genetic changes that limit infectivity can lead to
What is attenuated strains
Used mice in his experiments to determine steps for directly linking a specific microbe to a specific disease
What is Robert Koch
Used in combination with other antibacterial drugs to treat tuberculosis
What is Isoniazid
Organic molecules that pull iron from our iron-binding proteins
What is Siderophores
Process that lymphocytes use to differentiate self from foreign MHC's
What is Allorecognition
Infect the host bacterial cell, immediately build new virions, and then kills the host cell as newly made bacteriophages are released
What is Lytic Replication Pathway
Discovered and created modern vaccines
What is Edward Jenner
Penicillin, cephalosporins, carbapenems, and monobactams
What is Beta-lactam antimicrobials
Consists of chemokine, interleukins, and interferons
What is Cytokines
A given B cell cannot change what epitope it recognizes, it can undergo
What is Isotype Switching
Attachment, penetration, replication, assembly, and release
What is Generalized Bacteriophage Replication
Father of Microbiology
What is Anton Von Leeuwenhoek