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20 Cards in this Set
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List sites in the human body that carry normal resident microbes
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mucous membranes &skin
upper resp. tract GI tract Outer openings of Urethra External Genitals Vagina |
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This bacteria is the first to colonize and is a Flora of the Respiratory Tract
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Oral streptoccocus
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Is a bacteria on the tonsils and lower pharnx is considered of the Flora of the Respiratory Tract
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Haemophilus
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Is a flora at the nasal entrance ,vestibule, and anterior nasopharynx apart of respiratory tract
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S.aureous
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a flora on the mucous membranes of the nassopharynx part of respiratory tract
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Neisseria
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What are some factors that weaken hosts defenses cause infection during pregnancy
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old&infancy
Genetic defects surgery or transplant cancer,liver malf,diabetes organic diseases chemo therapy immunosuppressive drugs stress etc. |
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List some pathogens that may cross the placenta during pregnancy
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Syphilis
Toxioplasmosis Other diseases Rubella Cytomegalovirus |
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Bacterial flora benefit host by preventing overgrowth of harmful microbes
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Microbial antagonism
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introducing known microbes back into the body
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probiotics
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capable of causing disease in healthy people with normal immune defenses
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true pathogens
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causes disease when the hosts defenses are compromised or when they grow in part of the body thats not natural to them
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opportunistic pathogen
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toxic to white blood cells
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leukocidins
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accumulation of fluid
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edema
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microorganisms are multiplyingin the blood and present in large numbers
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septicemia
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long term or permanent damage to tissues or organs
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sequelae
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tests that can be used to identify and determine the amount of an antibody in a serum
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titer
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not necessary to the life cycle of an infectious agent and merely transports it without being infected
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mechanical vector
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actually participate in a pathogens life cycle
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biological vectors
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an infection indigenous to animals but naturally transmissable to humans
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zoonosis
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when an infected host can transmit the infectious agent to another host and establish infection in that host
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communicable disease
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