Ch 11

4. Another name for lipopolysaccharide
7. long-term or permanent damage caused by infectious disease
9. Contribution of multiple microbes, normally in an infection
10. Organisms coming in from outside the body
11. Cells that engulf and destroy host pathogens by means of enzymes and antimicrobial chemicals
14. part of the outer cell membrane of gram - cells
15. Severity of disease or degree of pathogenicity

1. Enzymes secreted by microbes that break down and inflict damage on tissues
2. Found in the blood of horseshoe crabs
3. Organisms coming from somewhere within the same human host to cause the infection
5. Microbes get past host defenses and multiply
6. class of bacterial exotoxin that disrupts or "lysis" the cell membrane of red blood cells
8. Factor that is an adaptation a microbes uses to establish itself in a host
9. Microbe that is parasitic to its host
12. Step five of infection
13. Deviation from health that results when cumulative effects of infection cause damage