FOUNDATIONS IN MICROBIOLOGY CHAPTER 13 EXAM PREP COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+

FOUNDATIONS IN MICROBIOLOGY CHAPTER
13 EXAM PREP COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+


◉Infectious disease . Answer: an infection that causes damage or
disruption to tissues to tissues and organs


◉Pathogen . Answer: Infectious agent


◉Etiology . Answer: The study of the cause of a disease


◉Pathogenesis . Answer: The development of disease


◉Infection . Answer: -Colonization of the body by a pathogen
-A condition in which pathogenic microbes penetrate host defenses,
enter tissues, and multiply


◉Disease . Answer: An abnormal state in which the body is not
functioning normally

, ◉Normal (resident) flora and host . Answer: Microbes that engage in
mutual or commensal associates.
-Transient microbiota
-Normal microbiota
-Symbiosis


◉Transient . Answer: -May be present for days, weeks or months
-Microbes that occupy the body for only short periods


◉Normal microbiota . Answer: premanently colonize the host


◉Symbiosis . Answer: is the relationship between normal microbiota
and the host
--> Commensalism
--> Mutualism
--> Parasitism


◉True Pathogens . Answer: Capable of causing disease in healthy
persons with normal immune defenses
--influenza virus, Plague baccillus, malarial protozoan