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Endogenous diseases are |
cancer, genetic abnormalities, muscular dystrophy, diabetes etc |
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Infectious diseases |
are mostly not fatal. Serious cause of morbidity or associated with other significant disease states. |
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Microorganisms that cause disease are: |
1) Large eukaryotic parasites(tapeworms) 2) Smaller eukaryotic parasites(trypanosomes) 3)Bacteria(gram-ve and gram+ve) 4)Viruses 5)Prions |
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Microbial disease can be caught from: |
1)Other infected people 2)Environment 3)Other animals 4)Combinations of these |
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Pathogens |
Agent capable of causing disease in a host organism. |
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Does colonisation with a pathogen always lead to disease? |
No whether the disease occurs depends on factors like the immune status of the host |
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What is pathogenicity? |
Ability of a microorganism to cause disease in a susceptible host |
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Virulence |
is a measure of an organism's disease causing ability |
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Virulence is measured |
as the severity of the disease caused by infection OR the ease by which the micro-organism's can be transmitted between hosts |
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Symbiosis is |
association when one organism lives on/in the body of another benefits microorganism the most(protection from predators) less benefit to host |
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What is pathogenicity? |
It is parasitism where the organisms benefit to detriment of the actual host |
