Infection
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- Created on: 20-03-22 20:17
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- INFECTION
- micro organisms causing damage to body tissue
- symbiosis benefits human not harm MO
- Commensalism benefits MO doesnt harm human.
- pathogenicity benefits MO & harms human
- opportunism benign MO becomes pathogenic- lies dormant and seizes opportunity.
- 4 stages of clinical infectious disease process 1.incubation 2.prodromal 3.invasion 4.convalescence
- 4 stages of infection= 1.colonisation 2.invasion 3.multiplication 4.spread
- 1.bacterial 2.viral 3.fungal 4.parasitic & protozoal
- Fever- pyrexia NOT a failure of the body to reg temp. The body temp is being regulated at a higher level than normal.
- exogeneous pyrogens- outside host.
- Endogeneous pyrogens- produced by individual
- exogeneous pyrogens- outside host.
- 4 stages of infection= 1.colonisation 2.invasion 3.multiplication 4.spread
- 4 stages of clinical infectious disease process 1.incubation 2.prodromal 3.invasion 4.convalescence
- opportunism benign MO becomes pathogenic- lies dormant and seizes opportunity.
- pathogenicity benefits MO & harms human
- Commensalism benefits MO doesnt harm human.
- counter measures .infection control .antimicrobials . immunisation
- 1.bacterial 2.viral 3.fungal 4.parasitic & protozoal
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