Chapter 11 Interactions Between Microbes and Humans

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Across
  1. 2. relative severity of a disease caused by a particular microbe
  2. 3. a microbe whose relationship with its host is parasitic and results in infection and disease
  3. 7. digests the protective coating on mucous membranes
  4. 9. long-term or permanent damage to tissue or organs cause by infectious disease
  5. 11. the number of people who develop a disease during a particular time period
  6. 13. individual or object from which an infection is aquired
  7. 15. a dormant state of microbes in certain chronic infectious diseases
  8. 16. an organisms potential to cause disease
  9. 17. habitat in the world from which a pathogen originates
  10. 19. a pathogen that causes disease when the hosts defenses are compromised
Down
  1. 1. the number of people who develop a disease at a specified time, regardless of when it first appeared
  2. 4. class of bacterial exotoxin that disrupts the cell membrane of red blood cells
  3. 5. deviation from health that results when cumulative effects of infection damage
  4. 6. organisms coming in from outside of the body
  5. 8. Microbes get past host defense, enter tissue, and multiply
  6. 10. no noticeable symptoms
  7. 12. causes clotting of blood or plasma
  8. 14. cells that engulf and destroy host pathogens by means of enzymes and antimicrobial chemicals
  9. 18. organism coming from somewhere within the same human host to cause the infection