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Pathology - Answers The study of Disease
Etiology - Answers The study of the cause of a disease
Pathogenesis - Answers The development of disease
Infection - Answers Colonization of the body by pathogen
Disease - Answers An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally
Normal (resident) flora and host - Answers Transient microbiota
Normal microbiota
Symbiosis
Transient - Answers may be present for days, weeks or months
Normal microbiota - Answers premanently colonize the host
Symbiosis - Answers is the relationship between normal microbiota and the host
--> Commensalism
--> Mutualism
--> Parasitism
True Pathogens - Answers Capable of causing disease in healthy persons with normal immune defenses
--influenza virus, Plague baccillus, malarial protozoan
Oppurtunistic pathogens - Answers Cause disease when the host's defenses are compromised or when
they grow in part of the body that is not natural to them
i.e.-Pseudomonas sp
i.e.-Candida albicans
Virulence - Answers Severity of the disease depends on the ____ of the pathogen
Virulence factor - Answers Characteristic or structure that contributes to the ability of a microbe to
cause disease is a _____ _____.
Microbial antagonism - Answers is a competition between microbes
Normal microbiota - Answers protect the host by-- occupying niches that pathogens might occupy.
, --producing acids and bacteriocins
Two Normal microbiota of the Human skin - Answers Transients
Residents
Transients - Answers influenced by hygiene
Residents - Answers introducing known microbes back into the body
Koch's Postulates - Answers Determining the causative agent of a disease
Koch's Postulates order - Answers 1. The same pathogen must be present in every case of the disease.
2. The pathogen must be isolated from the disease host and grown in pure culture.
3. The pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when it is inculated into a healthy,
susceptible lab animal.
4. The pathogen must be isolated from the inculated animal and must be shown to be the original
animal.
Koch's - Answers ___ postulates are used to prove the cause of an infectious disease.
-Some pathogens can cause several disease conditions
-Some pathogens cause disease only in humans
Classifying infectious diseases - Answers -sign
-symptoms
-syndrome
-communicable- contagious
-noncommunicable
Sign - Answers A change in the body that can measured or observed as a result of disease
-Fever; Leukocytosis
Symptoms - Answers A change in body function that is felt by a patient as a result of disease.
-Chills; pain; Nausea
Syndrome - Answers A specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a disease.
Communicable disease - Answers When an infected host can transmit the infectious agent to another
host and establish infection in that host.