Germs and sickness

3. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease
4. Drugs that destroy/kill bacteria
7. Koch Koch's postulates Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens that cause disease
8. microorganisms that cause disease. Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi and Protozoans(parasites).
11. Fungus a type of pathogen that can cause diseases like athletes foot and ringworm. An organism that absorbs nutrients from the environment.
15. plasmodium causes Malaria. It is transmitted by the anopheles mosquito through its saliva when it sucks blood. It is a one-celled, animal-like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms.
16. Resistance a condition in which bacteria can no longer be killed by a particular antibiotic

1. When an infectious disease spreads worldwide.
2. Special proteins which destroys/kills pathogens (made by white blood cells)
5. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens(Louis Pasteur) This process is used to make milk safe to drink.louis Pasteur proposed the germ theory of disease began pasteurizing(heating) milk to kill bacteria. Also developed a vaccine to prevent Rabies
6. Semmelweiss The first doctor to recognize the importance of hand-washing to PREVENT the spread of infectious diseases.
9. When there are lots of cases of an infectious disease in one area of the world.
10. A one-celled prokaryotic microorganism without a nucleus. Cause disease by rapidly reproducing and making toxins which damage our body cells. Examples: Lyme disease, cholera, tuberculosis, strep throat, tetanus and others.
12. When a person has white blood cells that can rapidly make the correct antibodies to destroy/kill a pathogen.
13. A non-living sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce. Not made of cells. Examples: rabies, cold, flu, measles, Hepatitis B, AIDS, others.
14. A dead or inactive form of a pathogen. They prevent some types of diseases such as measles, mumps, Hepatitis B.