Pathogens
This pathogen is often in the form of yeasts and molds and like to live in warm, moist environments.
What is fungi?
This immune cell "swallows" and kills the virus.
What are the killer cells?
This is the type of pathogen you are infected with if you are sick with diseases such as strep throat or Tetanus.
What are bacteria?
This structure involved in the immune system traps pathogens before you inhale or swallow them.
What are tonsils and adenoids?
This disease has been eradicated world-wide because of vaccines.
What is smallpox?
These pathogens are single-celled microorganisms that can be found everywhere.
What are bacteria?
This immune cell remembers the virus and triggers an immune response if the virus returns.
What are the memory cells?
The flu, COVID-19, and the common cold are all illnesses caused by this type of pathogen.
What are viruses?
This structure produces white blood cells.
What is the bone marrow?
Vaccines work to strengthen this type of immunity.
What is adaptive?
This pathogen requires a host to reproduce.
What are viruses?
This immune cell "eats" the virus and displays a piece of it (antigen) on its surface.
What are the macrophages?
Penicillins and doxycycline are types of these that can be used to treat bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
This structure produces T-cells that kill infected and cancerous cells.
What is the thymus?
Of the four types of pathogens, these two pathogen types have had vaccines made for some diseases caused by them in order to prevent infection.
What are bacteria and viruses?
This pathogen is a single-celled organism such as lice, ticks, fleas and lice.
What are parasites?
This immune cell makes antibodies that tag the virus to be destroyed.
What are the B cells?
Athlete's foot and ringworm are infections caused by this type of pathogen.
What are fungi?
This structure creates and protects good bacteria.
What is the appendix?
This type of immunity you are born with.
What is innate?
List the 4 groups of pathogens that make us sick.
What are bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites?
This immune cell recognizes the antigen and calls for "back up" by releasing chemical messengers.
What are the helper T cells?
Malaria is a disease transmitted through mosquitoes that carry a single-celled microorganism, or pathogen, called this.
What is a parasite?
This structure recycles old red blood cells and stores platelets and white blood cells.
What is the spleen?
This term refers to how many people, on average, an infected person is likely to spread the disease to.
What is R-0?