Infection

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What are the four stages of 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 the name for 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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Single organism that lacks the green pigment chlorophyll
Fungus
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What are parasites?
A living thing that lives in or on another living organism
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What stands
for MRSA?
Methicillin resistant staphylococcus Aureus
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