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Disease causing organisms (virus, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, worms) |
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| Disease caused by PATHOGENS; not from genetic inheritance (hemophilia) |
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| Scottish physician: 1st to use Carbolic Acid in antiseptic surgery |
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| French chemist; disproved Spont. Gen. & established Germ Theory Disease |
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| German microbiologist; postulates used to prove cause of specific disease |
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| External defense (skin, enzymes, lysozyme, acids, mucociliated epithelium) |
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| German microbiologist; Father of Chemotherapy; "magic bullet" for syphilis |
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| 2nd Defense (nonspecific) |
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| Internal defense (macrophages, complement, inflammation response) |
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| Non-specific local internal response (swelling, redness, heat, and pain). |
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| Non-specific blood protein stimulated by antibodies; poke holes in microbe |
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| Non-specific protein secreted by virus-infected cell (blocks reproduction) |
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| Targeted Defense (3rd line) |
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| Immune Response (Cell Mediated + Humoral) against specific pathogen |
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Resistance to a pathogen that causes specific disease (vaccine or prior expos... |
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| Protein (usually surface) that stimulates an IMMUNE response |
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| Specific blood proteins produced by PLASMA cells (humoral immunity) |
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| Lymphocytes involved with HUMORAL immunity (antibodies in blood) |
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Lymphocytes most involved with CELL MEDIATED immunity |
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| Activated B-lymphocyte; produces many antibodies specific to antigen sti... |
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| Immunity originated from B-cells (ie. Antibodies in blood) |
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Immunity originated from T-cells (lymphocytic attack) |
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| Lymphocytes that activate both humoral & cell mediated immune response |
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| Non-specific phagocyte; presents pathogenic antigens on surface (B/T cells) |
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| Activated B-cells; set aside for quick SECONDARY response to pathogen |
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| Quicker/stronger response w/ 2nd exposure to pathogen (no symptoms) |
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| Microbiologist; developed 1st polio vaccine (chem., disabled) |
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| Gives ARTIFICIAL, but active immunity; disabled pathogen stimulates IS... |
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| Body produces antibodies, natural or acquired (vaccine); long-term immunity |
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| Body RECEIVES antibodies from another source; short-term immunity |
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| Over sensitivity to a non-harmful allergen |
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| Hormone released by MAST cells; causes VASODILATION. |
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Immune system turns against SELF (Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, MS) |
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| Fatal viral disease from HIV; destroys body's T-helper cells & immunity |
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