Across
- 7. Skin disease lives in dirt, plants, household surfaces, or on people.
- 8. hosts Anyone, especially: children, the elderly, people with the weakened immune systems, unimmunized people
- 11. Direct, indirect
- 13. Disease transmission occurs when a host inhales infected particles, touches an infected object, or is bitten by an infected insect
- 14. A single-celled, prokaryotic microorganism
- 15. People, animals, the environment
- 16. Non-specific immune defense mechanisms that were born with, mechanisms world to keep anything outside of us from coming in
Down
- 1. Prions, viruses, bacteria, protists, fungi, helminths
- 2. Various infections that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins can cause diseases such as mad cow disease
- 3. Any eukaryotic protist of the phylum or subkingdom protozoa
- 4. Disease transmission occurs with a host touches an infected individual or is exposed to their body fluids
- 5. Specific immune defense mechanisms, form on immunity are acquired over a lifetime and uses antibodies to respond to specific antigens
- 6. Large, eukaryotic, multicellular, parasitic worm, such as tapeworms, leeches, etc
- 9. Skin, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, urogenital, conjunctiva
- 10. Skin, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, urogenital, conjunctiva
- 12. Can require a host in which to replicate can cause various diseases in all forms in life.