B1.1 Keeping Healthy

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A dead or inactive form of a pathogen
Vaccine
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When the body lacks the correct amount of a nutrient
Malnourished
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The rate at which chemical reactions take place in the body
Metabolic rate
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A disease-causing microorganism
Pathogen
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Used to kill bacteria but not viruses
Antibiotics
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Produced by white blood cells to combat diseases
Antibodies
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Has no vaccine as it develops resistance too quickly
Common cold
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Type of antibody that ingests and destroys pathogen
Phagocyte
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When the body does not become ill from a disease
Immunity
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Person who proposed the idea of doctors washing hands between treatments
Semmelweis
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Relieve the symptoms of an infectious disease
Painkillers
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Discovered by Fleming in 1928
Penicillin
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A strain of bacterium that is resistant to most antibiotics
MRSA
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What is done to equipment before it is used to grow microorganisms
Sterilised
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When the body lacks the correct amount of a nutrient

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Malnourished

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The rate at which chemical reactions take place in the body

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A disease-causing microorganism

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Used to kill bacteria but not viruses

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