Vocabulary words infectious desises
Across
- 2. administration of a vaccine to produce immunity to a disease
- 5. microganinisum that causes disease
- 7. single-called microorganisms that can cause disease
- 8. in infectious agent that can only replicate inside the living cells of organisms
- 9. reaction of immune system to the pathogen or antigen
- 11. antibodies by the immune system in response to an antigen
- 14. transmits a pathogen from one host to another
- 16. white blood cell that produces antibodies to fight off infections
- 17. habitat where it can survive and multiply
- 19. responde more effectively to a pathogen to re-expose
Down
- 1. an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, affectinga large number of people
- 3. targets particular pathogens and can remember them faster
- 4. spread from one host to another
- 6. results in a transfer of antibodies from on indivisual to another
- 10. practice of protecting and improving the health of the community
- 12. type of white blood cell that plays a centeral role in cell in meditated immunity
- 13. Greek
- 15. an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly to many people in a given population
- 18. invasion and multiplication of pathogens in body Tissue