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Innate Immune System
Adaptive Immune System
Respiratory Infections
Skin & Wound Infections
Potpourri
100
These are examples of the first line of innate immunity
What are skin and mucous membranes, antimicrobial secretions and normal microbiota?
100
These are the white blood cells important in the adaptive immune response
What are B cells and T cells (lymphocytes)?
100
Causitive agent = H. influenzae; this are the diseases it commonly produces
What are conjunctivitis, otitis media and sinusitis?
100
The bacterial infection most likely encountered due to a puncture wound.
What is tetanus (lockjaw)?
100
This is the group of serum proteins that provide a nonspecific defense mechanism
What are complement?
200
These are important phagocytes in the innate immune system.
What are neutrophils and macrophages?
200
This is the type of cell responsible for the humoral immune response.
What are B cells?
200
This is the name of the virus that causes the common cold.
What is rhinovirus?
200
Causitive agent = B. henselae; this is the disease it commonly produces
What is cat scratch disease?
200
All blood cells in the body originate from this type of cell, in this location.
What are hematopoietic stem cells, found in the bone marrow?
300
These are the four cardinal signs of inflammation.
What are redness, heat, swelling and pain?
300
These cells stimulate B cells to divide and activate CD8 cells to destroy infected cells.
What is helper T cells (CD4 cells)?
300
Causitive agent = B. pertussis; this are the diseases it commonly produces
What is Pertussis or Whooping cough?
300
This is a common viral rash of childhood, extremely contagious.
What is chicken pox (varicella zoster virus)?
300
Causitive agent = P. aeruginosa; this is the disease it commonly produces in a wound infection
What is Gas Gangrene?
400
These are receptors that recognize foreign substances embedded in cellular membranes of sentinel cells.
What are TLR's (toll like receptors)?
400
These are proteins that react specifically with chemical structures in an antigen that induced them.
What are antibodies?
400
These are two bacterial infections associated with the lower respiratory tract.
What are pneumoccal pneumonia, pertussis or tuberculosis?
400
This is the virus whose most serious consequence is severe birth defects.
What is rubella (German measles)?
400
These are the cells of the immune system (B and T cells) that remain in the system, primed for a secondary response.
What are memory cells?
500
This is the attraction of leukocytes to an area of inflammation.
What is chemotaxis?
500
These are the antigen presenting cells, which produce MHC class II molecules.
What are macrophages and dendritic cells?
500
This is the name of the viral disease that effects the lower respiratory system and requires a new vaccination each year due to antigenic drift.
What is influenza?
500
Causitive agent = B. burgdorferi; this is the disease it commonly produces
What is Lyme disease?
500
Causitive agent = S. pyogenes; this is the disease it commonly produces in the upper respiratory system.
What is strep throat?