Infection

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  • Created on: 20-03-23 21:24
Microorganisms that cause disease
pathogen
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What stage of progression involves replication of infected cells, macrophages and other cells
Multiplication
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What is the fourth stage of clinical infectious disease process
Convalescence
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What regulates the body’s temperature
Hypothalamus
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Rise in body temperature above the
normal ( 37.2)
Pyerxia
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What is a circulating protein, which produces a fever
Pyrogens
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What bacteria is shaped like a corkscrew
Spirochete
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What is related during lysis
Endotoxins
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Basic viral structure
Viron
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minute particle that is capable of replication but only within living cells
Virus
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Transmission from animal reservoir
zoonotic infection
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What is the second step in the viral life cycle
Penetration
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viruses hide within cells & away from normal inflammatory or immune responses
Intracellular survival
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simple organism that lacks the green
pigment chlorophyll
Fungus
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Infection with a fungus
mycosis
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single celled parasitic organisms
Protozoa
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Any living thing that lives in or on another living
organism
Parasite
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What prevents the function of enzymes or cell structures unique to the infecting agent
Antibiotics
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