Folder 1 - Media

Question 1

What are 4 key attributes of pathogens?

Answer 1

Colonisation

Penetration

Multiplication

Tissue damage

Question 2

During pathogenesis what are the outcomes of invasion?

Answer 2

Pathogens either remain within the epithelium or they translocate and encounter non-specific immune mechanisms which either ends up in an evasion of phagocytosis or they resist being killed by acting intracellularly