microbiology final exam fill in the blank

The term that refers to anything a microbe might use to stick to host cells or surfaces is: Examples: capsule, slime layer, pili and fimbrae

adhesin

can be a measure of both the severity of disease and the strength of the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection.

virulence

A disease's cause is called the _____, for infectious diseases it would be a microbe or microbial substance such as a toxin

etiology

A ____ carrier is the most dangerous to pubic health because they do not at anytime show signs or symptoms of disease, making them hard to identify.

healthy

A yellow color in both the PR L and PRS indicates an ____ byproduct.

acidic

Citrate permease allows a bacterium to digestive citrate and use it as a source of ___.

carbon

Our body's do not provide a suitable environment for some microbes. This

statement refers to the non-specific defense category _____________________.

Species resistance

Antibodies passed to a breast-fed infant in breast milk is an example of the general type of immunity: _______________ ____________ immunity.

natural passive

_________ is the self antigen found on all nucleated body cells. (use all caps

MHC 1

Immunological memory could best be described as the programming or sensitization of _____ lymphocytes.

B

Increasing WBC proliferation is one of the main purposes of the non-specific defense ___________.

fever

A T dependent antigen requires input from a T ________ cell to activate the B cell.

helper

An ___________________ is a molecule capable of being recognized by the immune system.

antigen

The tinea which affects the head/scalp is tinea _________.

capitis

The 2 types of asexual fungal spores are sporangiospores and _________.

conidiospores

The protozoan organelle which rids the cell of excess water (like a bilge pump in a boat) is the ________ ________.

contractile vacuole

The hookworms and threadworms have larva that invade the skin from the _______.

soil

Platyhelminthes has two divisions the trematodes (flukes) and the ________ (tape worms)

Cestodes

Diphylobothrium latum is the causative agent for the ______ tapeworm.

fish

The vector that transmits the helminthic infection River Blindness (caused by

Onchocerca volulus) is the _________ fly.

black