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Medicine - Infectious Disease

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What term describes the multiplication of microbes that causes cell or tissue death?

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What is the term for a disturbance of health when the body cannot function normally?

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What is the collection of microorganisms at any given body site called?

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What are microbes that are always present on or in the human body and do not cause disease?

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What term describes microbes that can be present under certain conditions in locations where resident microflora are found?

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What type of microbe can be a resident or transient and causes disease under certain conditions?

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What is the term for a microbe that can cause disease in a healthy human?

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What is the full collection of genes of all the microbes in a community called?

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What term describes microbial disruption?

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What is the ability of a microbe to cause disease known as?

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What term describes the degree or extent of disease that a pathogen causes?

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What are the features that help microbes adhere to host cells and invade host tissues?

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What is the ability of a pathogen to quietly exist inside a host, often causing persistent recurrent disease?

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What is the term for objective evidence of disease as noted by an observer?

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What is the term for subjective evidence of disease as sensed by the patient?

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What is the number of cells or virions needed to establish an infection in 50% of exposed hosts?

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What is the amount of toxin needed to kill 50% of affected hosts that are not treated?

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What are the roles of microbiota in human health?

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What can compromise a healthy health by disrupting a normal microbiota balance?

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What are the most common phyla in gut microbe?

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What factors can cause changes within the microbiome?

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What is the correlation between human health and the microbiome of breastfed babies?

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How does Bifidobacterium correlate with inflammatory disease?

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What is the correlation between gut diversity in infancy and asthma?

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What are the functions of virulence factors in causing disease?

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Why do persistent microbes not have the most pathogenicity?

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What is the first stage a microbe has to go through to establish disease?

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What is the second stage a microbe has to go through to establish disease?

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What is the third stage a microbe has to go through to establish disease?

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What is the fourth stage a microbe has to go through to establish disease?

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What is the fifth stage a microbe has to go through to establish disease?

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What is the most common site of entry for microbes?

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What are the portals of entry and how are they breached by microbes?

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How do microbes breach the skin as a portal of entry?

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How do microbes enter the gastrointestinal tract?

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How do microbes enter the respiratory tract?

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How do microbes invade the urogenital tract?

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How is the transplacental portal of entry breached by microbes?

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What are adhesions in the context of microbial pathogenicity?

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How do adhesions promote interaction between the microbe and host?

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What determines host ranges and tropism in microbial infections?

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What are the three different growth patterns seen for pathogens inside a host?

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What are the roles of invasions in microbial pathogenicity?

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What are exotoxins and their effects?

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What type of toxins affect the nervous system?

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What type of toxins target the gastrointestinal tract?

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What type of toxins affect the liver?

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What type of toxins damage the kidneys?

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What are endotoxins and their composition?

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What are the systemic effects caused by endotoxins?

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What is the role of exoenzymes in microbial pathogenicity?

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What are examples of exoenzymes and their functions?

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What is antigen mimicry in microbial pathogenicity?

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What is antigen masking in microbial pathogenicity?

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What is the intracellular lifestyle of pathogens?

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What is phagocytosis in host defense mechanisms?

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How do microbes undermine phagocytosis?

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What are the different portals of exit for pathogens?

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What is an example of an otic portal of exit?

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What is an example of an ocular portal of exit?

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What is an example of a respiratory mucosa portal of exit?

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How does bacterial load correlate with the incubation period?

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How does bacterial load correlate with the prodromal period?

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How does bacterial load correlate with the height of infection?

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How does bacterial load correlate with the convalescent period?

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How does bacterial load correlate with recovery?

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What is a carrier in the context of microbial infections?

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What factors determine the biosafety level (BSL) of organisms?

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What are the characteristics of microbes handled in BSL1 spaces?

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What are examples of microbes handled in BSL1?

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What are the characteristics of microbes handled in BSL2 spaces?

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What is an example of a microbe handled in BSL2?

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What are the characteristics of microbes handled in BSL3 spaces?

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What is an example of a microbe handled in BSL3?

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What are the characteristics of microbes handled in BSL4 spaces?

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What is an example of a microbe handled in BSL4?

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