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What is the term for invasion or colonization of the body by a pathogenic microorganisms? |
Infection |
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A microorganisms that does not cause disease in its normal habitat, but causes disease if introduced to a different body part? |
Opportunistic pathogen |
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What kind of disease is easily spread from 1 person to another? |
Contagious |
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People harboring and passing on a pathogen whom do not show symptoms? |
Carrier |
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What is a disease the develops rapidly and on last for a short time? |
Acute |
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Which of the following is a measurable change in a patients condition? Fever, cough, change in skin color, nausea. |
Fever. Signs are measurable by a physician |
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What kind of molecules are used by some pathogens to obtain free iron from their host's transport proteins? |
Siderophores |
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Which of the following components of a prokaryotic cell are useful in adhering to host tissue? Ribosomes, fimbriae, capsule, cell wall. |
Fimbriae |
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What is secreted by some pathogenic bacteria during their normal growth? |
Exotoxins |
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What does the virulence of a pathogen mean? |
The degree to which it causes disease |
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What process involves a pathogen altering it's cell-surface compounds to evade the immune system? |
Antigenic variation |
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Which portal of entry involves direct deposition of microorganisms into internal tissues? |
Parenteral route |
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What has a microorganisms acquired if it is no longer susceptible to a particular antibiotic? |
Resistance |
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What kind of spectrum does an antibiotic have if it affects many different species of bacteria from different groups? |
Broad |
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What type of antibiotic causes microbial cell death? |
Bactericidal |
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Which of the following is a complete, infectious viral particle? |
Virion |
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Which of the following if the protein coat of a virus? Cell wall, capsule, capsid, envelope |
Envelope |
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What are the projections from the surface of a virus? |
Spikes |
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What type of immunity involves memory and is always changing? |
Adaptive |
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What is the phagocytic cells that generally comprises most of the leukocytes in blood? |
Neutrophils |
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What type of immunity is nonspecific and present at birth? |
Innate |
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What do we call a compound that can provoke an immune response? |
Antigen |
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What kind of defensive, nonspecific immune response can involve redness and swelling? |
Inflammation |
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What is the term for most of the population being immune to a pathogen? |
Herd immunity |
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Which of these vaccine types has no chance of causing the disease it is immunizing the patient against? Live attenuated, inactivated killed, subunit. |
Subunit |
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What is the term for a chemical additive to increase the effectiveness of a vaccine? |
Adjuvant |
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What do we call the use of proteins already present in blood serum to attack an invading microorganisms? |
Complement fixation |
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What practice was used before the invention of vaccines to create aquire immunity to smallpox? |
Variolation |
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What is the technical term for a weakened, but still living pathogen used in some vaccines? |
Attenuated |
