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| What are virulence factors and why are they important to pathogens? |
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| Virulence factors are surivival mechanisms that Bacteria use to survive inside a diffrent organism. |
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| what are innate host defenses and aquired host defenses? |
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Innate host defenses are always there, have no memory. they include your skin, complement, and phagocytes. the 3rd line of defense is your immune system. |
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| What are the three beneficiary reasons why Humans keep microbiota? |
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The normal microbiota Synthesize Vitamins Aid Digestion of Polysacharides Protect Humans from pathogens by- taking up space and producign unfavorable conditons. |
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| Does your skin have a microbiota? What are the defenses of the skin? |
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Physical Barrier Dry Sloughing cells high salt concentration Lysozyme Normal Microbiota Skin associated Lymphoid tissue IgG, IgA |
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| Whats more suceptible to Lysozyme, Gram negetive or gram Positive cells? |
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| What is the normal microbiota of the skin? |
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Slide 9 .O {color:black; font-size:149%;} .O1 {color:black; font-size:149%;} a:link {color:#CCCCFF !important;} a:active {color:#3333CC !important;} a:visited {color:#B2B2B2 !important;} –Staphylococcus epidermidis –Propionibacterium acnes Primarily gram positive cocci and rods (Bacteria prefer wet conditons)
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| What are the defenses of the eyes? |
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Eyelids and lashes Lysozyme Lactoferrin sIGA Tears and Blinking away bacteria |
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Most organisms require Iron, Hosts reduce Iron levels by using transferin, what does the pathogen do in response? |
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| It uses a siderophore to take the iron from the cell and transport it back to the bacteria and connect to the Omp receptor. |
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