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microbe and host
chapter 14
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Biology
Graduate
03/18/2012

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pathology
Definition
study of disease
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etiology
Definition
study of cause of disease
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pathogenesis
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developement of disease
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transient microbiota
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present for days, weeks, or months
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normal microbiota
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permanteently colonize host
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symbiosis
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relationship between normal microbiota and the host
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commensalism
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one benifit, other unaffected
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mutualism
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both benefit
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parasitism
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one benifit, other harmful
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opportunistic pathogen
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do not cause disease in normal habitate in healthy person, but cause in different environment
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microbial antagonism
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compitition among microbe
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normal microbiota protect what?
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host
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koch's postulate
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specific infectious disease is associated with specific microbes
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symptoms
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change in body function felt by a patient as a result of a disease
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sign
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change in a body that can be measured and observed as a result of disease ex. sweat, tem..
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syndrome
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specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a disease
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communicable disease
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disease spread from one host to another
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contagious disease
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disease that easily spread from one host to another
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non communicable disease
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disease that is not transmitted from one host to another
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incidence
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fraction of poppulation contracted disease during a specific time
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