Microbiology Unit 3 Crossword

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  1. 3. A thin yellow secretion high in IgA that helps guard infants from enteric pathogens.
  2. 8. He developed a standard for determining causation that would stand the test of scientific scrutiny.
  3. 11. General purpose phagocytes with rapid death when exposed to their own toxic oxygen products.
  4. 12. Nobel Peace Prize winners swallowed these cells to prove they caused gastric ulcers.
  5. 14. These cells process foreign matter and present it to lymphocytes.
  6. 16. One function of this system is to act as a "drain off" for the inflammatory response.
  7. 18. This system consists of 4 stages: initiation, activation and cascade, polymerization, membrane attack.
  8. 19. The specific surface marker for B-cells
  9. 22. Barrier that prohibits most microorganisms from passing into the central nervous system. (2 words)
  10. 24. This line of defense has host defenses that are developed uniquely.
  11. 25. These cells ordinarily engulf and destroy pathogens by means of enzymes and antimicrobial chemicals.
  12. 29. A measurement of the concentration of antibodies in a blood sample, indicating immunity or exposure to a specific disease.
  13. 30. Arthoropod-borne viruses
  14. 33. Old English word for "lump" or "bump"
  15. 38. Inapparent disease
  16. 41. Process that makes microbes more readily recognized by phagocytes.
  17. 43. Without granules
  18. 44. ___________ meningitidis appears as a gram-negative diplococci and is commonly known as meningicoccous.
  19. 45. Outer surface of the tooth.
  20. 46. Abbreviation for conserved molecular structures found on the surface of many pathogens that trigger the innate immune system to initiate an immune response
  21. 48. Organisms coming from somewhere in the same human host.
  22. 49. The sum total of all microbes found on and in a normal human. (2 words)
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  1. 1. These T-cells lead to the destruction of infected host and foreign cells.
  2. 2. __________ lyse red blood cells.
  3. 4. A sign is any __________ evidence of disease as noted by an observer.
  4. 5. Saliva contain this antimicrobial protein.
  5. 6. Clonal _____; a mechanism by which the exactly correct B or T cell is activated by any incoming antigen.
  6. 7. B and T cells originate here
  7. 9. Crops of lesions associated with meningococcus.
  8. 10. Bonds that hold the two heavy chains of an immunoglobulin molecule.
  9. 13. A common hallmark of helminthic infection that involves an increase in granular leukocytes.
  10. 15. Unique characteristic of adaptive immunity that allows the body "recall" and fight a reinfection.
  11. 17. Heat-labile exotoxin produced by shigella dysenteriae.
  12. 20. Abbreviation for one set of genes that codes for human cell markers or receptors.
  13. 21. Healthcare-associated infections are also known as this. (2 words)
  14. 23. The syndrome that is the leading cause of acute paralysis in the U.S. since the eradication of polio.
  15. 26. most common infectious of human beings that happens in the mouth. (2 words)
  16. 27. Clostridioides _________ is a gram-positive endospore-forming rod that is normal biota in the intestine, and also a HAI.
  17. 28. A symptom is the ___________ evidence of disease as sensed by the patient.
  18. 31. The soft tissue of the brain and spinal cord is encased within this tough casing.
  19. 32. Arthrospores turn into these during the parasitic phase in the fungus known as coccidiodes.
  20. 34. second most common cause of hospitalizations from food borne disease in U.S. associated with cruise ships.
  21. 35. This virus can cause microencephaly in infants.
  22. 36. This causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  23. 37. Foreign molecules that are too small by themselves to stimulate an immune response.
  24. 39. The first and second lines are classified into this general category.
  25. 40. This is the site for T-cell maturation
  26. 42. The innermost membrane in the skull
  27. 47. Bacterium is a small gram-positive flattened coccus that appears in end to end pairs.
  28. 50. A body defense activated at the earliest symptom of disease.