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These pathogens consist of a core of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat and require a host cell to replicate.
What are viruses?
This is the category of defence when a plant produces antimicrobial enzymes which stop pathogen growth.
What is active defence?
The skin is the major organ in this line of defence.
What is the first line of defence?
This strategy involves the use of vaccines to stimulate an immune response and prevent specific infectious diseases.
What is vaccination?
This type of pathogen includes organisms such as fungi and yeasts, which can cause infections like athlete's foot and ringworm.
What are fungi?
When humans produce mucus that traps microbes.
What is a physical defence?
This term refers to the process by which immune cells engulf and digest pathogens and debris.
What is phagocytosis?
This practice involves maintaining cleanliness and sanitation to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
What is hygiene practices?
This is a global disease outbreak.
What is a pandemic?
This chemical defence dilutes the number of organisms and washes the teeth and mouth.
These cells are crucial in the immune response, recognizing and destroying infected cells and coordinating the overall immune response.
What are T cells?
This process separates potentially infected individuals from the rest of the population to reduce the chance of widespread infection
What is quarantine?
This method of disease transmission involves direct contact between infected and susceptible individuals, such as through sexual contact.
What is direct transmission?
Animals have these short hair like structures that are a barrier to infection.
What are cilia?
This type of immunity is acquired through exposure to pathogens or vaccination and involves the production of antibodies.
What is adaptive immunity?
These pharmaceuticals inhibit the development of their target inside cells. They only slow down their progress.
What are antivirals?
This set of criteria helps to judge whether a given bacteria is the cause of a given disease.
What are Koch's Postulates?
This immune response involves the production of antibodies by B cells in response to antigens.
What is humoral immunity?
This term refers to the number of new cases of disease cases occuring in a specific time.
What is incidence?