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How Microbes avoid defense?
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-Kill Microphage
-Enzymes break apart antibodies -Bind antibodies backwards |
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How do vaccines work?
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-Killed Microbes (will no reproduce)
-Close relative -Mutated Microbe -Sub units |
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Unsuccessful Vaccines
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Are due to viruses who have many receptor sites and they change. The body cannot creat antibodies quick enough.
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Pathology
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The study of disease/ infection
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Epidemiology
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Patterns/causes of disease in a population.
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Emerging Infectious disease
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New diseases in todays society
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Epidemic
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Disease affecting a large number of people in a population
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Pandemic
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Disease affecting many people on very wide scale
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Mechanisms of Emergence?
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1. Travel and Commerce
2. Human Demographics 3. Human Behavior 4. Technology and Industry 5. Changes in land use 6. Antimicrobial resistance 7. Bioterrorism |
