Pathogens
Across
- 3. Drugs that destroy/kill bacteria
- 4. When a person has white blood cells that can rapidly make the correct antibodies to destroy/kill a pathogen
- 5. A dead or inactive form of a pathogen. They prevent some types of diseases
- 7. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens
- 8. A one-celled prokaryotic microorganism without a nucleus. Cause disease by rapidly reproducing and making toxins which damage our body cells
- 10. 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
- 11. When an infectious disease spreads worldwide
Down
- 1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease
- 2. When there are lots of cases of an infectious disease in one area of the world.
- 6. Special proteins which destroys/kills pathogens
- 9. A non-living sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce. Not made of cells
- 10. microorganisms that cause disease