Microbial Adherence
Name two structures that aid in the adherence of microbes to host tissues.
What is Capsules, pilli, Fimbriae, Flagella
What is the term for the growth of microorganisms after it has gained access to host tissues?
What is Colonization
The ability of a pathogen to cause disease.
What is virulence
What is a nosocomial infection?
What is an infection that is acquired from a heath care setting.
Receptors that are found on the pathogens surface that are composed of glycoprotein or lipoproteins.
What is Adhesins
What type of cell is found on most mucous membranes?
What is epithelial cells
The amount of host damage in an infectious disease is mediated by what factors that are produced by the pathogen?
What is virulence factors
Name a well known opportunistic pathogen.
What is the difference in infection and disease?
What is, infection is the spread and growth, disease is the damage to host tissue.
What is invasion?
What is the ability of a pathogen to enter into host cells or tissues, spread, and cause disease.
What is attenuation?
What is the decrease or loss of virulence of a pathogen.
Name three conditions that can compromise your immune system, leading you vulnerable to an opportunistic pathogen?
What is a physiological condition (old age or hospitalizations), an ongoing infection (AIDS or HIV), genetic conditions (cystic fibrosis)
What is one portal of entry that microbes use to enter the host.
What is mucous membranes, skin surfaces, or under mucous membranes.
What condition is worse, bacteremia or septicemia and why?
What is septicemia, because bacteria are multiplying in the bloodstream and spreading systemically.
In an attenuated vaccine, is the virus alive or dead?
What is alive
What condition happens that causes HIV to turn to AIDs.
What is the amount of CD4 T helper cells fall below a certain threshold level.
Nisseria gonorrhoeae adheres to mucosal epithelial cells and has a cell surface protein that binds specifically to a host protein. What is the name of this specific receptor protein?
What is Opa (opacity associated protein)
What is Lactic Acid
Give four examples of an attenuated vaccine.
Name a function of Salmonella pathogenicity island 1
What is assembly of structural proteins that form and injectosome allowing for direct virulent protein transfer into host cells.