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13 Cards in this Set
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Flora Transients |
induced by hygiene |
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Flora Residents |
Stable, predictable |
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True pathogens |
capable of causing disease in healthy perosn with normal immune defences ex. influenza, plague |
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opportunisitic pathogens |
cause disease only to hosts defecne are compromised or when they grow in pat of the body that is not natural to them |
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virulence factor |
factors of microbe to cause disease |
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portal of entry |
route a pathogen takes to enter host |
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Adhesion |
binding between specific molecules on hots and pathogen |
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exoenzymes |
dissolve barriers , penetrate the cell |
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toxigenicity |
produce toxins at the site of multiplication |
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endotoxin |
released after the cell is damaged |
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exotoxin |
toxin secreted by living bacterial cell into tissue |
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requirement for infectious dose |
minimum number of microbes required for infection to proceed |
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portals of entry |
skin, GI tract, Resp. tract, urogenital tract, transplacental |
