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Parasites
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Organisms that require a host in order to live
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Vectors
"stethescope" |
living or non living object that transfers a pathogen from one organism to another
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Normal Flora
"good bacteria" |
live normally and harmoniously within the human body
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Gram stain
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dye that is used on a slide to identify different bacteria
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Zoonosis
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an animal diseasethat is transmitted t humans
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nosocomial
Nancy stay at the hospital was NOSO comial |
hospital aquired infection
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disease
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failure of the body to function normally
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portals of entry
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routes by which pathogens "enter" the body
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pathogen
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disease causing organism
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infection
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disease that is caused by a pathogen or it's toxin
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Portals of Exit
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Routes by which pathogens leave the body
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Bacteria
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coccus, bacilli, curved rods
Look pretty cilli with bacilli, chlamidia rekketsia |
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Virus
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Acts like a parasite to infected cell, from latin term meaning poison, consists of rna or dna surrounded by a shell, No antibiotics
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fungi
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plantlike organismes/ mushrooms Mycotic infectons, yeasts and molds,
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protozoa
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single cell, animal like microbes, ameobas, flagellas sporozoa
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worms
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helminths, ascaride, trichinoa, flukes, pinworms,
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arthropods
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animals, joint legs, insects and ticks
ectoparasites |
