Lecture 1 - PID Intro Flashcards
Defense against disease?
Immune system
Three causes of infectious disease?
Bacteria, viruses, and parasites
Epidemiology
How disease spread
Bacteria that live in extreme conditions
Extremophiles
Free-living bacteria
No importance for animals or dieases
Non-pathogenic
Doesn’t cause disease
Two categories of pathogenic bacteria
Facultative pathogenic
Obligate pathogenic
Two categories of facultative pathogenic
Endogenic infection
Exogenic infection
Endogenic infection
Comes from bacteria within
Exogenic infection
Comes from an outside source
Balanced pathogenicity
Will recover eventually without treatment
Unbalanced pathogenicity
Will die without treatment
Infection
Invasion and multiplication of a microorganism, eventually with disease
Disease
Creates structural and functional damage
Subclinical
Causing minimal damage - treatment not given