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What are transient microbiota

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Stays in a region for variable amount of time

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What are normal microbiota

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Specific to a certain region of the body and nonpathogenic

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What are microbial antagonism

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Normal microbiota inhibiting growth of pathogenic microbiota

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What is symbiosis

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Relationship between micro organisms

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What is commensalism

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Host benefits but parasite is unaffected

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What is mutualism

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Both host and parasite mutually benefit

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What is parasitism

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Parasite benefits and host is affected

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What is an opportunistic pathogen

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A normal micro organism becoming pathogenic

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What is the syndrome

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Signs and symptoms

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What is Koch’s postulates

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Inoculate disease from dead animal. Culture plus microscope to identify. Inject lab animal with pure culture. Culture new animals disease plus microscope to identify.
If they match then you found a disease.

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What are signs

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What you see you

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What are symptoms

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What you feel

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What is a communicable disease

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Spreads from one organism to another

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What is a contagious disease

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Easily spreads from one organism to another

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What is a non-communicable disease

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Doesn’t always cause disease or symptoms. Not from people i.e. doorknob

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What is a sporadic disease

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And outbreak that pops up occasionally

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What is an endemic disease

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Disease that is constantly present in an environment

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What is an epidemic disease

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Widespread disease in a given area

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What is a pandemic disease

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Widespread disease around the world

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What does acute mean

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Short and sudden

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What does chronic mean

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Slow and long

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What does sub acute mean

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Between acute and chronic. Intermediate

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What does latent mean

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Disease that is dormant and arises suddenly due to stress in the body

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What is incidence

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Number of people with the disease in a given area at a given time

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What is prevalence

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Percent chance of infection in any given population

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What is herd immunity

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When few animals are vaccinated the rest end up becoming immune due to low incidence

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What is local infection

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In a limited area of the body

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What is systemic infection

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The whole body is affected

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What is focal infection

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Started in one area but moves to another

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What is sepsis

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Information from the spread of microbes that may or may not be toxic

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What is bacteremia

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Bacteria in the blood

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What is toxemia

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Toxins in the blood

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What is virusemia

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Viruses in the blood

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What is the primary infection

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The first infection you

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What is secondary infection

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Secondary infection that occurs due to immunocompromised health

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What are the four predisposing factors for disease

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Temperature, age, stress, lifestyle

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What is a subclinical infection

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And asymptomatic infection. The carrier

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What are the five stages of disease and describe each one

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Incubation period: asymptomatic. Prodromal.: Mild symptoms.
Period of illness: very sick.
Period of decline: almost not sick. Period of convalescence: not sick anymore.

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What is a reservoir

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A source of an infection

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What is a carrier

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Infected individual but asymptomatic

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What is a vector

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The source of infection i.e. fleas

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What is a zoonosis

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Disease transmissible from animal to human and vice versa

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What is a nonliving reservoir

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What is contact transmission

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When one animals body fluids are going into another mucous membrane

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What is indirect transmission

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Nonliving reservoir

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What is a fomite

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I.e. doorknob

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What is droplet transmission

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Spread by droplets

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What is waterborne transmission

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Carried by water

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What is airborne transmission

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Carried by air

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What is mechanical transmission

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Transmission by touching IE fly

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What is biological transmission

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Blood touching infected blood IE mosquito

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What is nosocomical

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Disease coming from a clinic

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What is a compromise host

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A host that has a change in homeostasis

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What is epidemiology

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Study of disease transmission

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What is morbidity

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The incidence of disease. To which extent the disease affects you

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What is mortality.

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The incidence of death from a disease

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What is Virulence

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Degree of pathogenicity

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What are the portals of transmission

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Skin, mucous membranes, umbilical cord

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What is the preferred portal of entry

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Specific to bacteria. If it is not the preferred portal and it will not make you sick

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What is id50

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Quantity of bacteria that gets you sick.

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What is LD50

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Amount of bacteria that is required to be the lethal dose for 50% of host cells

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What is adherence

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Organisms that attach to host

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What are adhesians

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Ligans. Molecule in host that allows attachment of bacteria

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What is a biofilm

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Produce a sticky substance that increases adherence

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What do bacteria do to affect penetration

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Capsule, 
cell wall components
Enzymes
Antigenic variation 
Cytoskeleton penetration
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What is an M protein

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Resistant to host defences

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What are coagulases

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Break down components of clots

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What are kinases

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Breakdown components of clots

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What are hyaluronidase

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Break down connective tissue

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What is iga protease

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Beaks down antibodies

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What is antigenic variation

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When bacteria change proteins on their surface

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What do invasions do

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Affect cytoskeleton of cells

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What do siderophores do

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Steal host iron

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What does direct damage to host cells

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Multiplication inside of them until they rupture

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What is an endotoxins from

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Part of microbe

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What is an exotoxins

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Released by bacteria

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What is innate immunity

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Nonspecific, born with it

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What is adaptive immunity

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Specific. Acquired

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What is the first line of defense

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How it gets in. Nonspecific physical and chemical surface barriers

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What is the second line of defense

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Nonspecific intercellular and chemical defense

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What is the third line of defense

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Immune response

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What is chemo taxis

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Moving towards chemicals

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What are toll like receptors

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Receptors found on the cells of a host

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What is PAMP

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Molecules on Invadir that allows body to recognize that it’s foreign

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What are the surface barriers

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Skin, mucous membranes

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What are the internal defense

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Phagocytes, natural killer cells, inflammation, antimicrobial proteins, fever

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What is humoral immunity

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What is cellular immunity

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What is the ciliary elevator

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Cilia moves mucus up the respiratory tract

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What is the normal microbiota

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Having normal microbiota inhibits growth of abnormal microbiota

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What are the three granulocytes

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Neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils

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What are the three agranulocyte’s

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Lymphocytes, monocytes, Dendridic cells

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What is the function of the lymphatic system

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Drain fluid from tissues

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What are the four stages of inflammation

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Tissue damage,
vasodilation,
phagocytosis,
tissue repair

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What is diapedesis

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Movement of leukocytes out of the capillories between epithelial cells

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What effect does vasodilation have on the body

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Increased blood flow, increased metabolic rate

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What is kinins

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Chemicals that cause vasodilation and increased permeability

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Where are prostaglandins released by and what are they do

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Damage to cells, help Phagocytes movement

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What do leukotrienes do

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Help blood get anti-inflammatories

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What is the purpose of the fever

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Macro phages secrete pyrogens which cause the liver and spleen to give up iron and zinc which is necessary for growth

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What is opsonization

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The coating of a pathogen to enhance phagocytosis

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What is inflammation

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Triggers vasodilation and chemo taxis

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What is Cytolysis

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Injection into pathogen cell membrane (MAC molecule) that creates pores

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What do interferons do

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Proteins released by the virus-infected cells which prevent viral replication in other host cells

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What do you iron binding proteins do and which are they

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Find iron so bacteria cannot have it. Transferon, lactoferon, feratin, hemoglobin

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