Immunology And Disease

Question 1

Define pathogenic

Answer 1

Denotes An organism that causes damage to host

Question 2

Define infectious

Answer 2

Relating to a disease that can be passed from one organism to another

Question 3

Define carrier

Answer 3

And individual who has the micro organism that causes the disease and pass it on, but has no symptoms of the disease itself

Question 4

Define disease reservoir

Answer 4

A long-term host of a pathogen that causes infectious disease

Question 5

Define endemic

Answer 5

When a disease always found at low levels in a certain area

Question 6

Define epidemic

Answer 6

The rapid spread of an infectious disease to a large number of people in a population

Question 7

Define pandemic

Answer 7

An Epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through populations on multiple continents

Question 8

Define Vaccine

Answer 8

Treatment that provides active, acquired immunity from a disease

Question 9

Define antibiotic

Answer 9

Substance produced by micro organisms that affects the growth of other microorganisms

Question 10

Define antibiotic resistance

Answer 10

When microorganism, which should be affected by an antibiotic, is no longer susceptible to it

Question 11

Define antigenic types

Answer 11

Organisms with similar antigens on their cell surface

Normally identified using antibodies from serum

Question 12

Define vector

Answer 12

Living organism that transmits a disease from one organism to another

Question 13

Define toxin

Answer 13

Poisonous substance produced by microorganisms that damages their host

Question 14

Give examples of a bacterial infection

Answer 14

Cholera

TB

Question 15

Give examples of a viral infections

Answer 15

Influenza

Small pox

Question 16

Give examples of a protoctistan infection

Answer 16

Malaria