Understanding Infectious Diseases | Defense Against Germs | Common Infectious Diseases | Emergin Infectious Diseases | Random |
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What is caused by organisms or viruses that enter and multiply within the human body.
infectious diseases
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What is the openings into your body, such as your mouth, eyes, and nose, are covered by these protective linings.
mucous membranes
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What is strep throat, lyme disease, bacterial meningitis, tb,
bacterial diseases
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What is a deadly flu outbreak an example of?
epidemic
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What is your body's general response to all kinds of pathogens?
inflammation
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What is organisms so small they can only be seen by microscope.
microorganisms
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What is the white blood cells engulf and destroy pathogens.
phagocytes
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What is caused by the streptococcus
strep throat
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What is an infectious disease that has become increasingly common in humans within the last 20 years.
emerging disease
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What is acquired from outside your own immune system
passive immunity
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What is a single-celled micro-organisms
bacteria
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What is the system that fights disease by producing a seperate set of weapons for each kind of pathgen it encounters.
immune system
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What is caused by an infected tick with this disease.
lyme disease
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What is a flu that results in close contact with an infected bird?
avian flu
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What is acquired from having a disease or from receiving a vaccine.
active immunity
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What is the smalles pathogen
virus
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What is are the three types of T-cells
killer t cells
helper tcells suppersor tcells |
What is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the lungs and transmitted when droplets from an infected person's cough or sneeze.
tb
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What is a virus caused by a bite of infected mosquito.
west nile virus
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What is the reasons why diseases emerge?
contact with infected animals, drug resistance, lack of immunizations, international travel, global food supply
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What is single-celled organisms that are much larger and more complex than bacteria.
protozoans
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What is are the proteins that attach to surface of pathogens or to the toxins produced by pathogens.
antibodies
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What is the common cold, influenza, pneumonia, and hepatitis
viral diseases
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What is change in a pathogen
mutation
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What is an example of a disease caused by a protozoan.
malaria
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