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Bacteria

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Tuberculosis (humans and cattle)

Bacterial Meningitis

Ring rot (potatoes and tomatoes)

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Virus

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HIV

influenza

Tobacco Mosaic virus

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Protoctista

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Malaria

Potato late blight

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Fungi

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Black sigatoka (bananas)

Ringworm

Athletes foot

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Neutrophil

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Manufactured in the bone marrow

Present in blood and in tissue fluid

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Interleukins

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T cells and macrophages release interleukins which stimulate clonal expansion and differentiation

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immune response

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Bodys reaction to a foreign antigen

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autoimmune disease

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attack own immune system

recognise our own antigens as foreign

lupus arthritis

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epidemic

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a rapid spread of disease through a high proportion of the population

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