Host-Microbe Interactions
The term used to indicate the capacity for a microorganism to cause disease.
What is pathogenicity?
The risk associated with working with a pathogen.
What is biosafety level?
Anything that causes an immune response.
What is an antigen?
Route of infection for Rubeola.
What is respiratory?
This infectious illness has a vaccine, but it is not widely used in the United States because it eliminates the use of the skin test for diagnosis.
What is tuberculosis?
A disease that can be transmitted person-to-person.
What is communicable?
The biosafety level you would work at if you're using Ebola
What is BSL-4.
First line of defense.
What are barriers?
The Guardasil vaccine can prevent infections by this virus.
What are Human Papillomaviruses?
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria create this toxin that cause Staphlyococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome.
What are exfoliatins?
A life-threatening condition where bacteria are actively replicating in the blood.
What is septicemia?
These are used to determine the pathogen responsible for infection.
What are Koch's postulates.
The process by which certain cells ingest and destroy foreign or infected cells.
What is phagocytosis?
This kind of virus is responsible for 30 to 50% of common colds.
What are Rhinoviruses?
This is the most common infectious disease in humans.
What are dental caries?
Enzymes that are secreted by microbes to break down or inflict damage on tissues to promote spread of disease.
What are exoenzymes?
This method of microbial control works by denaturing enzymes.
What is heat?
This cell is the big responder in Type II (humoral immunity).
What are B cells?
The only infection to have been globally eradicated.
What is smallpox?
The most prevalent STI in the United States.
What is Chlamydia?
A potent antigen only secreted by pathogenic bacteria that is fatal in small amounts.
What are exotoxins?
What are Gram negative bacteria?
A molecule on a microbial surface that serves as a red flag for a phagocyte (something like peptidoglycan or peplomers); an antigen.
What is a pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)?
Recovery from rabies is incredibly rare and only occurs regularly in this animal.
What are bats?
Helicobacter pylori is linked to this gastric condition.
What are ulcers?