NDH bacteria questions and answers

NDH bacteria Which type of pathogen is capable of causing disease regardless of the status of the host immune system? - frank pathogen Which type of pathogen causes disease under appropriate conditions, such as, microbial overgrowth, entry through trauma, decreased immune status, antibiotic treatment, etc.? - opportunistic pathogen Obligate pathogen - microbes that cannot survive for long outside of the hosts Normal flora/environmental microbes as source of opportunistic disease - Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal means what - normal flora What is secreted to kill other microbes that are competitors? (3) - naturally derived antibiotics, bacteriocins, T6SS effectors What are the 6 steps of host-microbe interactions and disease progression? - encounter, entry, spread, multiplication, damage, outcome What is one factor that may reduce microbial growth during the multiplication stage? - fever What are the 2 types of spread in the disease progression steps? - to adjacent sites,