Flora the Explorer
Resident microbes of body
What is Normal Flora?
Always pathogenic organism.
What is Strict Pathogen?
Both host and microbe benefit.
What is Mutualism?
Body sites free of microbes.
What are Sterile Sites?
Protective bacterial armor.
What is Capsule?
Short-term visitors.
What is Transient Flora?
Sometimes pathogenic organism.
What is Opportunistic Pathogen?
One benefits, one unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
Bacteria here always abnormal.
What are Critical Sites? eg. CSF, joint fluid.
Secreted toxins.
What are Exotoxins?
Long-term residents.
What is Resident Microbiota?
Self-flora infection.
What is Endogenous Infection?
One benefits, one harmed.
What is Parasitism?
No normal flora allowed.
What are Sterile Body Sites?
Cell wall toxin of Gram negative
What is Endotoxin?
Most microbes live here in the body.
What is the Colon?
External source infection.
What is Exogenous Infection?
Jumping virulence gene sets.
What are Pathogenicity Islands?
The liquid in your joints
What is synovial fluid ?
Sticky cell proteins.
What are Adhesins?
Vaginal pH regulator.
What is Lactobacillus?
Severity measure of disease.
What is Virulence?
Traits causing disease.
What are Virulence Factors?
The fluid that hugs your heart ?
What is Pericardial fluid?
Surface slime colonies.
What is Biofilm?