Agents of Disease
Across
- 5. action of making a person or animal resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen
- 7. widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time
- 8. bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease
- 9. member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease
- 11. disease caused by a pathogenic organism
- 12. in which a parasite or commensal organism lives
- 14. organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a pathogen, disease, or parasite from one animal or plant to another
- 16. person or animal that transmits a disease-causing organism to others, especially without themselves displaying symptoms
- 17. medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms
- 18. single-celled organism of the kingdom Protista, such as a protozoan or simple alga
- 19. resulting from or showing the effect of mutation
- 20. substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen
- 22. conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness
- 23. any of a group of spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools
Down
- 1. simple, nonflowering, and typically aquatic plant of a large group that includes the seaweeds and many single-celled forms
- 2. phylum or group of phyla that comprises the single-celled microscopic animals, which include amoebas, flagellates, ciliates, sporozoans, and many other forms
- 3. A microorganism
- 4. submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism
- 6. widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time
- 8. organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense
- 10. disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms, signs, or anatomical changes
- 13. sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as disease
- 15. Loss of susceptibility of bacteria to the killing or growth-inhibiting properties of an antibiotic agent
- 21. communication of disease from one person to another by close contact