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Ch 16 Host-Microbe Interaction
Chapter sixteen
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
02/24/2013

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What is an infection?
Definition
Colonized organisms have parasitic relationship with host
Term
What type of infection has no noticeable adverse effects?
Definition
Asymptomatic infection
Term
Describe symptomatic infection.
Definition
A disease that causes characteristic signs and symptoms
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What are symptoms?
Definition
Effects that the patient experiences, subjective, based on the individual (pain threshold)
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What are signs?
Definition
effects that can be observed through examination, objective, rash, puss formation, swelling, temperature ( road signs-see them)
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What are organisms that can cause disease in otherwise healthy people?
Definition
Pathogens
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What are opportunistic pathogens?
Definition
Microbes that cause disease when body's defenses are down
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What is a pathogen's disease causing ability called?
Definition
Virulence
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