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________ cause many familiar diseases, such as malaria and kalaazar.
Protozoan microbes
________, entering through a mosquito bite, will go to the liver, and then to the red blood cells.
Malaria causing microbes
HIV
An infection like ________, that comes into the body via the sexual organs, will spread to lymph nodes all over the body.
AIDS
Other than the sexual contact, the virus causing ________ (HIV) can also spread through blood- to- blood contact with infected people or from an infected mother to her baby during pregnancy or through breast feeding.
________ can not have such an impact on human cells since they don't produce cell walls.
Penicillin
________ feed on many warm- blooded animals, including us.
Mosquitoes
A(n) ________ recruits many cells to the affected tissue to kill off the disease- causing microbes.
active immune system
________ contacts include handshakes or hugs or sports, like wrestling, or by any of the other ways in which we touch each other socially.
Casual physical
________ are conditions that can persist for a very long time, even a lifetime .. An example is the infection causing elephantiasis, which is very common in some parts of India.
Chronic diseases
a disease is due to _______ of body function
malfunctioning
an acute disease is a _____ duration disease.
short
________ diseases are found by birth
congenital
Allergy is an example of __________ disease
Non-communicable
____________ is a vector of a viral disease called dengue
Aedesaegypti
HIV stands for __________
Human immunodeficiency virus
______ is the ability of the body to protect itself from infection and disease.
immunity
On the basis of __________, physicians look for signs of disease.
symptoms
Ringworm is caused by ______.
fungi
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