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  1. 2. Saprophytic and parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic organisms that lack chlorophyll, such as molds, rusts, mildews, smuts, mushrooms, and yeasts.
  2. 3. A single-celled, prokaryotic microorganism.
  3. 4. contact Disease transmission occurs when a susceptible host inhales infected particles, touches an infected object, or is bitten by an infected insect.
  4. 7. - the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group, regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected.
  5. 10. contact Disease transmission occurs when a susceptible host touches an infected individual or is exposed to their body fluids.
  6. 12. immunity - Non-specific immune defense mechanisms that we are born with. These mechanisms work to keep anything outside of us from coming in.
  7. 14. various infectious proteins that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins.
  8. 15. of exit - For a human reservoir, the portal of exit can include blood, respiratory secretions, and anything exciting from the gastrointestinal or urinary tracts.
  9. 17. Anything that stimulates an immune response.
  10. 18. A large, eukaryotic, multicellular, parasitic worm, such as a tapeworm, liver fluke, ascarid, or leech.
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  1. 1. agent - Infectious agents are organisms that are capable of producing infection or infectious disease. They include bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites.
  2. 5. of entry - refers to the manner in which a pathogen enters a susceptible host.
  3. 6. -A protein produced by B cells in the blood; works to impair pathogens. Also called an immunoglobulin.
  4. 8. host - The person who is at risk for developing an infection from the disease.
  5. 9. Any of a large group of nonliving, submicroscopic infective agents that typically comprise an RNA or DNA core of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat.
  6. 11. Any eukaryotic protist of the phylum or subkingdom Protozoa.
  7. 13. immunity - Active immunity: acquired as a result of infection and recovery or from a vaccine; your body makes its own antibodies.
  8. 16. - that is pathogenic for some other species lives and multiplies typically without damaging the host.