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| when a microorganism produces a harmful and potentially lethal consequence |
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| presence and multiplication within another living organism |
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| the act of establishing a presence in the host |
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| harmless bacteria that is present on the inside and outside surfaces |
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| when the host is NOT affected by the microorganism |
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| the colonizing microbes that are not harmful to the host |
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| when the host and microbe both BENEFIT from eachother |
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| when the host does not gain benefits from the microbe or is harmed from it |
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| disease producing potential |
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| microbes that rarely are found in the absence of disease |
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| free-living organisms that obtain their nutrients from dead or decaying organic material in the environment |
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| pathogens that are capable of producing an infectious disease when the health and immunity of the host have been weakened |
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