diverse chemical reactors that communicates with other cells and anti-cancer & anti-viral defense
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Opsonin
molecole that binds to antigen to promote phagocytosis
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Compliment systems
responsive protein that opsonize pathogen and induces inflammation and fight infection
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acquired immune system
\ \ Sophisticated system that responds to specific foreign chemical moieties (antigens) of invading parasites and foreign bodies.
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innate immune system
response to pathogen from monocytes, netrophils, NK cells and inflammation
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Degranulation
leukocytes release granules at cell surface to destroy pathogens
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T-lymphocyte cell
cells that kill target cells and have tumor recognition (created in thymus)
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B-lymphocyte
cells that Undergo clonal expansion to create specified antibodies (created in bone marrow)
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disease
A reduction in fitness, as assessed by an absence of some measure of health or a decreased adaptability to change.
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Health
A complex condition assessed by one or a combination of specific physical characteristics; also can be assessed by the adaptability of a host to change
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Intensity of infection
avrg # of parasite/pathogen on infectedÂ
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Pathogens
capable of causing injury or death to tissues or a host.
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Parasite
An organism that lives in or on a host, from which it derives food and other biological necessities. The parasite benefits by using host resources, often reducing the host’s survival or reproductive success.Â
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Nidus
a location or a region with the ecological factors that allow the maintenance and transmission of a disease agent; a small local area or broad geographic region where transmission occurs (pathogen is “endemic”).
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Definitive host
host that has parasite that has sexual repro
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Intermediate host
host has parasite that can go through cycles but has to be asexual
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Reservoir host
host that is required for maintenance cycle- required to keep pathogen on landscape
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vectors
often an invertebrate moving pathogen from one host to another
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Infection
colonization & repro of pathogen in host
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infestation
 colonization & repro of ectoparasite on host
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Infectivity(ability to infect host) invasiveness (how likely/far the pathogen moves away from infection site & pathogenicity (tendency to cause disease/damage where it is growing)
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Anemia
 low level of hemoglobin/ iron deficiency (Can be caused by malaria)
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antibody
protein produced to respond to and counteract antigens
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**Incidence**
\n The number of new hosts that become infected with a particular parasite during a specified time interval, divided by the number of uninfected hosts present at the start of the \n time interval.
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**Prevalence**
The number of hosts infected with one or more individuals of a particular parasite species (or taxonomic group) divided by the number of hosts examined for that parasiteÂ