Infection

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What is an microorganism?
Any organism too small to be seen by the eye.
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What is a pathogen?
Microorganisms that cause disease
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What is infection?
The presence of microorganisms causing damage to the body tissue.
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What does symbiosis do?
Benefits the human& doesn’t harm the microorganism.
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What is pathogenicity?
Benefits the microorganisms but harms the human
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Process of infection?
Colonisation
Invasion
Multiplication
Spreads
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