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Microbe-Human Interaction

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Two ways human host can acquire infections   Exogenous & Endogenous  
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Characteristics of Exogenous infections   Originate outside the body  
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Characteristics of Endogenous infections   Originates from within the body  
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Resident flora   are antagonistic; compete for space & nutrients;benefit the host by preventing the overgrowth of harmful organisms  
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Benefit of lactobacillus   lactobacillus responsible for the fermentation of glycogen which keeps thepH in the vagina acidic thus preventing the overgrowth of candida albicans  
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Benefit of ecoli   a protein produced by e-coli in the large intestine prevents groth of paathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella and Shigella  
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Streptococcus pneumoniae   encapsulated gram + bacterium, naturally present in the upper resp tract; may be transmitted exogenously via hands, rubbing eyes, sneezing; can cause problems is it gets outside body or if host is in a weakened state  
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Opportunistic pathogen   takes advantage of host in a weakened state  
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Microbial antagonism   good microbes establish themselves in the host and prevent the invasion of pathogenic microbes  
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Examples of endogenous infections   UTI's, staph & strep  
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Pneumocystitis jiroveci, although harmless to healthy individuals, causes pneumonia in AIDS patients and is their leading cause of death. This microbe is a (an)   opportunistic pathogen  
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Viral attachment to host tissues and cells involves   Spikes  
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Polysaccharide capsules of bacteria are considered antiphagocytic because they   prevent adherence to the phagocyte  
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The exoenzyme coagulase, which is produced by staphylococcus aureus is considered an antiphagocytic factor because it   hides the bacteria in clotted plasma proteins  
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Exotoxins that destroy red blood cells are called   hemolysins  
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A primary resevoir of zoonotic infection is   bird  
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What fomite involved in indirect contact transmission of disease   fomites are inanimate objects = money  
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the most prevalent type of nosocomial infection is   UTI  
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Lysozyme is a host enzyme found in host tears perspiration and tissue fluids. How is it used to protect the host?   Lyse bacteria by degrading their cell walls  
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The complement system comprises a group of 26 blood proteins. How is it used to protect the host?   Lyse bacteria with membrane-attack complexes  
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Which immune cells produce histamine and trigger the inflammatory response?   basophils and mast cells  
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foreigh molecules, e.g. viral and bacterial proteins, that provoke an immune response are called   antigens  
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what process terminates and immune response once the infection is cleared from the body?   apoptosis of lymphocytes  
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Which immunoglobulin is a pentamer in the blood and is the first produced in response to an infection/   IgM  
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Which immunoglobulin is a monomer and is the most abundant in the blood and tissue fluids?   IgG  
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Which immunoglobulin is a monomer in the blood, but is a dimer that is secreted in abundance on mucosal surfaces?   IgA  
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All blood cells are produced from stem cells that are located in the   bone marrow  
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T-lymphocytes mature in the   thymus  
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the most common type of antigen presenting cell (APC) is the   macrophage  
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A helper T lymphocyte uses cytokines to stimulate all of the following cells except   Natural killer T cells  
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Edward Jenner   developed the first vaccine tested successfully on a young boy in 1798 (Small pox)  
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The first vaccine was   attenuated (a weakened state of the original)  
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The 'a' in the DTaP stands for   acellular  
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Salk and Sabin vaccines were developed for   polio  
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Which disease was completely eradicated in 1977?   small pox  
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The coating of bacterial cells with antibodies, typically IgG or IgA, increases their adherence to phagocytes and enhances ingestion--this is known as   opsonization  
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the antibgody IgM enhances phagocytosis during the early stages of infection by binding to and clumping together bacterial cells-this is known as   agglutination  
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antibodies such as IgG and IgA prevent foreign microbes and molecules form damaging host cells and tissues by blocking attachment or entry--this is known as   Neutralization  
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antibodies such as IgM stimulate a class of serum proteins to punch holes in the bacterial cell membrane and cause bacterial cell death-this is known as:   Complement fixation  
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