Ways bacteria can cause infections
Bacteria cause damage during an infection by multiplying rapidly and releasing these toxic, poisonous substances.
What are toxins?
To fight off an infection, your body often raises its internal temperature, causing this common condition.
What is a fever?
In some cases, do antimicrobial-resistant infections have no treatment options?
What is yes?
What is handwashing?
Helps remove pathogens before they enter the body.
Only a small percentage of the world's bacteria cause what?
What are infections and diseases?
What system is vital to the body's defence against bacterial, viral, and fungal pathogens?
What is the immune system?
What do humans do that increases antibiotic-resistant infections?
What are the overuse of antibiotics, rapid bacterial evolution, and a lack of new drug development?
What are antibodies?
Proteins thats recognize and help destroy specific pathogens.
As a general rule, these infections are easier to treat than viral ones due to a much larger armamentarium of antimicrobial agents.
What prevents pathogens from entering the body?
What are the body's natural barriers, skin and mucous membranes?
What is the consequence of using the wrong type of antibiotic or failing to use the proper duration, which exposes bacteria to sublethal doses?
What is giving bacteria the ability to adapt?
What is vaccination?
The process that trains the immune system to recognize a pathogen before infection.
This disease is now well-known to health-care professionals, were discovered as recently as the 1970s.
What are Lyme disease and Legionnaire's disease
What is the body's first line of defense in which chemical, molecular, and cellular interactions come into play to protect the body from further assault and tissue damage?
What are the body's physical barriers?
The rise of superbugs is heavily driven by the misuse of these drugs, such as taking them for viral infections like the flu.
What are antibiotics?
What is antibiotic resistance?
Something when bacteria survive medicines designed to kill them.
What bacteria possess characteristics that allow them to evade the body's protective mechanisms and use its resources, causing disease?
What is pathogenic bacteria?
For an individual to respond appropriately and protectively to harmful stimuli, what do they need to initiate?
What are inflammatory and immune responses?
Bacteria can rapidly spread resistance by sharing loops of DNA called these with neighboring bacteria.
What are plasmids?
What is herd immunity?
This protection occurs when enough people are immune that infections spread less easily.