The basics
A scientific study of microorganisms, that is, of bacteria, dingy, intracellular parasites, protozoans, viruses, and some worms
What is Microbiology
A semipermeable phospholipid bilayer that separates the interior of cells from the outside environment and controls movement into and out of the cell.
What is Cell membrane
Transmitting a pathogenic microorganism from an infected individual to another individual by an arthropod or other agent, sometimes with animals serving as intermediary hosts.
What is Vector borne
A disease caused by microorganisms, especially those that release toxins or invade body tissues.
What is infection
Immune mechanisms that learn how to deal with specific invaders
What is Adaptive immune system
Any member of the kingdom protista; organisms that include the Protozoa, unicellular and multicellular algae, and slime like molds.
What is Protists
A gel-like matrix contained within the cell membrane
What is Cytoplasm
A vector that simply conveys pathogens to a susceptible individual and is not essential to the development of the organism
What is Mechanical vector
productive of disease
Pathogenic
Immunity associated with circulating antibodies
What is humoral immune response
In taxonomy, the kingdom of organisms with prokaryotic cell structure; that is, they lack membrane bound cell structure and a nuclear membrane around the chromosomes.
What is Prokaryotes
Cell organelle containing hydrolytic enzyme capsules used to break down proteins and carbohydrates to aid in intracellular digestions
What is Lysosome
A substance or microorganisms introduced by inoculation
What is inoculum
A poisonous substance produced by certain bacteria
Exotoxins
White blood cell that can ingest and destroy microorganisms, cell debris, and other particles in The blood or tissues
What is Phagocyte
Organism in which the cell nucleus is surrounded by a membrane
What is Eukaryote
Organelle that consists of a network of channels that transport material within the cells.
Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)
Occurs when microorganisms are transferred from one infected person to another
What is contact transmission
The relative power and degree of pathogenicity possessed by organisms
What is Virulence
A type of lymphocyte, developed in the bone marrow, that circulates in the blood and lymph and, upon encountering a particular foreign antigen, differentiates into a clone of plasma cells that secrete a specific antibody and a clone of memory cells that make the antibody on subsequent encounters.
What is B Cells
a microorganism capable of producing a disease.
What is Pathogen
Stacks of membrane bound structures
What is Golgi Apparatus
A vector that is essential in the life cycle of a pathogenic organism.
What is Biological vector
A carrier of disease
What is vector
A group of immunocompetent cells that mediate cellular immune response by engulfing, processing, and presenting antigens to the T-cell receptor. Traditional antigen presenting cells include macrophages, dendritic cells, langerhans cells, and B lymphocytes.
What is Antigen-presenting cells (APCs)