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| Host: neutral/ no benefit
Microbe: benefits
Example: Humans and their natural flora |
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Definition
| Beneficial for both microbe and host |
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Term
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Definition
| Host is harmed in some way. Severity runs from minor to death. |
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Term
| about how many microbes live per square centimeter on our skin? |
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Definition
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Term
| Upper respiratory tract and microbes.... |
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Definition
| Ideal environment
Warm, moist, lots of nutrients and lots of oxygen
Includes nose, mouth, throat. |
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| Most common flora in the vagina... |
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Definition
| Lactic acid producing bacteria and yeast |
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Term
| Body sites without normal flora |
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Definition
| Blood,
spinal fluid/brain,
bladder (urine is sterile),
lower respiratory tract (lungs), muscle,
bone |
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Term
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Definition
| ability of organism to gain entry into host's tissue and cause disease |
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| any organism having pathogenicity |
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