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34 Cards in this Set
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Individual who is exposed to and contracts the infection is called the _____.
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Host
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A relationship that benefits only the human host but does not harm the infecting organism.
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Symbiosis
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A relationship that benefits the human host and the infecting organism.
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Mutualism
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A relationship that benefits only the infecting organism but does not harm the human host.
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Commensalism
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A relationship that benefits only the infecting organism and harms the human host.
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Pathogenecity
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What are the four stages of infection?
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Colonization
Invasion Multiplication Spread - Infection Power Point |
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The ability of a pathogen to spread from on individual to others and cause disease is _____.
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Communicability
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The ability of a pathogen to invade and multiply in a host is called _____.
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Infectivity
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The capacity of a pathogen to cause severe disease is called _____.
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Virulence
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A disease with relatively high, but constant rates of infection in a particular population is known as a/an _____ disease.
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Endemic
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When the number of new infections in a particular population greatly exceeds the number usually observed, that is called an _____.
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Epidemic
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An epidemic that spreads over a large area, such as a continent or worldwide, is called a/an _____.
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Pandemic
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Molds are _____ (anaerobes/aerobes).
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aerobes
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Yeasts are _____ (anaerobes/aerobes).
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anaerobes
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An infection caused by a fungus is called a _____.
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mycosis
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Systemic mycosis is a life threatening opportunistic _____ infection secondary to immunosuppression.
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fungal
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If the host sustains injury or pathologic damage in response to a parasitic infection, the process is called an/an _____.
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infectious disease
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A situation in which benign human organisms become pathogenic because of decreased human host resistance is called a/an _____ infection.
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Opportunistic
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Adaptive immunity include humoral immunity which uses _____-Lymphocytes and cell-mediated immunity which is _____-Lymphocytes.
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Humoral immunity = B-Lymphocytes
Cell-mediated immunity = T-Lymphocytes - Infection Power Point |
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Incubation Period of infection
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Prodromal Period of infection
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Invasion period of infection
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convalescence period of infection
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What is I & I response?
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inflamatory and immune response
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Indogenos pyrogens include:
IL-1 IL-6 Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha |
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Ribosomes produce _____ in cells.
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Protein
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True bacteria is divided by _____.
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Binary fission
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Toxic proteins released during bacterial growth are _____.
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Exotoxins
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Toxic lipopolysaccharides contained in the cell walls of bacteria that can be released during lysis of the bacteria.
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Endotoxins
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Low levels of lipopolysaccharide (bacterial endotoxins) released into the human body can cause _____
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Local effects (monocytes, macrophage, neutrophil activation and compliment activation)
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Medium levels of lipopolysaccharide (bacterial endotoxins) released into the human body can cause _____
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Systemic inflamatory response.
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High levels of lipopolysaccharide (bacterial endotoxins) released into the human body can cause _____.
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Septic shock and death, DIC thrombosis, Acute Respiratory Distress Failure (ARD).
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Neutrophils are granular _____ that are usually the first phagocytic cells to arrive at the scene of the inflamatory response.
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leukocytes
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_____ are granular leukocytes that are usually the first phagocytic cells to arrive at the scene of the inflamatory response.
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Neutrophils
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