Infection

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What are the four stages to the process of infection?
1. Colonization
2. Invasion
3. Multiplication
4. Spread
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What is the third stage of the clinical infectious disease process?
Invasion period
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What are Exotoxins?
Proteins released during bacterial growth
/ A poisonous substance
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What is known as bacteria being transported in the blood due to the failure of the body’s defence mechanisms to infect other organs or multiplying in the blood
Sepsis
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A simple organism that lacks the green pigment chlorophyll
Fungus
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Explain the definition of a parasite and the risk factors associated with it?
A living thing that lives in or on another living organism

Risk factors: drinking unclean water, weaken immune system, contact with soil that contain infected animals or human faeces, live or travel in tropical/ subtropical regions.
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What does MRSA stand for?
Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
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