Common Diseases of Livestock Animals: Cause & Control

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Across
  1. 3. Occurs when a large number of animals in a group become immune to a pathogen
  2. 6. organism responsible for causing diseases upon entering the body
  3. 12. Live organisms responsible for providing health benefits
  4. 13. Measures taken to prevent the introduction or spread of a pathogen
  5. 15. Alteration of the body or body organs which interrupts the body's functions
  6. 17. Ability to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies
  7. 18. Factors responsible for making an animal more suspectable to disease
  8. 19. Structure on the surface of a pathogen responsible for attaching to receptors on immune cells
  9. 20. Vaccine which contains a weakened live version of the pathogen which can replicate once in animal's body
Down
  1. 1. Organism which lives in or on another organism and obtains nutrients at the expense of the host; also responsible for causing a disease
  2. 2. Study of disease
  3. 4. Spore producing organism which feeds on organic matter and is responsible for causing a disease
  4. 5. Study of causes of diseases
  5. 7. Single celled microorganism varying in shape and size, responsible for causing a disease
  6. 8. Body's ability to maintain an interval environment through adjustments of biochemical and physical pathways
  7. 9. Inanimate objects which carry pathogens until the object touches something else
  8. 10. Infectious agent made of a piece of genetic code protected by a coating of protein which can cause a disease
  9. 11. Protein responsible for neutralizing or destroying and toxin-producing organisms
  10. 14. Substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against disease
  11. 16. Vaccine which contains an inactive form of a pathogen incapable of replicating