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Hypersensitivities |
Inappropriate immune responses |
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Pneumococcal pneumonia is caused by |
Streptococcus pneumoniae |
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S. Pyogenes causes |
Scarlet fever |
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Opsonization |
Tags The Invader with complement proteins which will more readily clear be Invader by phagocytic cells |
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Type 1 reaction |
Involves igE Mast cells And / or basophils |
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Type 2 reaction |
IGG or IGM bind to non soluble antigens on the surface of a cell within the extracellular environment |
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Type 3 reaction |
Develop when IGG or IGM antibodies bind to soluble targets |
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Type 4 reactions |
Not antibody-mediated, T-cell mediated responses against self-antigens or otherwise harmless antigen |
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Three steps of PCR( m a e) |
Melting, annealing, extension |
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Annealing |
The steps of PCR are melting extension and blank |
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Live attenuated vaccines |
Type of vaccination contains altered pathogens that do not cause disease but are still infectious |
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Lysozyme |
Enzyme can break down the bacterial cell wall and found in secretions such as tears and saliva |
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Edward Jenner |
First person to successfully immunize people against smallpox |
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Hemagglutination |
Agglutination of red blood cells |
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
Causes walking pneumonia |
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Indirect |
Type of Elisa performed when you want to detect antibodies in a patient's sample |
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Epitope |
Portion of an antigenic molecule to which a lymphocyte responds |
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Viruses commonly cause |
Common cold |
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Dyspnea |
Shortness of breath |
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Bordetella pertussis |
Causes whooping cough |
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Immunoglobulin proteins produced in response to an antigen that can bind with the antigen are |
Antibodies |
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Perforins |
Punch holes in target cells leading to lysis |
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Thymus |
Where T-cells mature |
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Type IV hypersensitivity reactions |
Type of hypersensitivity reaction not antibody-mediated |
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Type I hypersensitivity reactions |
The type of hypersensitivity reactions that mast cells and basophils involved |
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Guillian Barre's syndrome |
Link to cross-reactivity activity after infection with campylobacter jejuni |
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Naturally acquired passive immunity |
Newborns immunity due to the transfer of antibodies across the placenta |
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Artificially acquired active immunity |
Immunity due to injection of antigen |
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Plasma |
When activated, B cells form blank cells that can produce antibodies |
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Titer |
Concentration of antibodies in serum |
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Antibodies produced first following infection |
IGM |
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Histamine |
Vasoactive molecule |
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Antibodies that can bind to large parasites |
IgE |
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most abundant class of antibodies |
IgG |
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Diapedesis |
When phagocytes squeeze between the endothelial cells in blood vessels |
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Autograft |
Type of transplant that is most compatible |
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Siderophores |
Organic molecules that pull iron from our iron binding proteins |
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Hemolytic disease of the newborn can result from |
An RH - mother with an RH+ fetus |