Immune Cells
This immune cell is targeted by HIV.
T cell
a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body
cancer
This female scientist helped discover the structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin
the action of making a person or animal resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen by administering a weakened form of the agent to their immune system
immunization / vaccination
This immune cell secretes antibodies.
B cell
infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Covid-19
developed the smallpox vaccine
Edward Jenner
medications that kill or inhibit bacteria to treat infections
antibiotics
This immune cell is the first to be recruited to the site of infection.
neutrophil
disease characterized by high blood sugar levels resulting from your body not making enough insulin or not responding to insulin properly
diabetes
developed pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies
Louis Pasteur
an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host.
virus
This immune cell is both a phagocyte and granulocyte.
neutrophil
this is a zoonotic hemorrhagic fever caused by a virus, it is very rare but there was an outbreak in 2013-2016
discovered penicillin
a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease