3 major pathways Correct Answers skin, mucous membranes,
placenta
adhesion factors Correct Answers specialized structures and
attachment molecules
antiphagocytic factors Correct Answers factors prevent
phagocytosis by the host's phagocytic cells, allows pathogens to
remain in the host longer
Antiphagotic Factors Correct Answers 1. prevent fusion of
lysosome and phagocytic vesicles
2. leukocidins (pore forming toxins) directly destroy phagocytic
white blood cells
bacterial capsule Correct Answers Composed of chemicals not
recognized as foreign
Slippery and difficult for phagocytes to engulf
contact transmission Correct Answers direct contact between
hosts,
indirect contact (pathogens spread from host to host by objects),
droplet transmission (spread through mucus, (coughing,
sneezing))
Definition of infection Correct Answers when a microbe evades
host's body, multiplies and becomes established in the body