Chapter 11

8. route of entry for an infectious agent typically a cutaneous or membranous route
12. the state if damage or toxicity in the body caused by an infectious agent
13. the entry, establishment, and multiplication of pathogenic organisms within a host
14. the relative capacity of a pathogen to invade and harm host cells
15. capacity of microbe to cause disease

1. the complement of microorganisms that live in or on humans
2. a project of the national institutes of health to identify microbial inhabitants of the human body and their role in health and disease
3. the act of taking up long-term residence as in microbes establishing a steady relationship with a host
4. a microbe's structures or capabilities that allows it to establish itself in a host and cause damage
5. a microbe capable of causing infection and disease in healthy person with normal immune defense
6. ordinary nonpathogenic or weakly pathogenic microbe that cause disease primarily in an immunocompromised host
7. involving multiple distinct microorganism
9. process by which microbes gain a more stable foothold at the portal of entry
10. when the effect of microbial infection damages or disrupts tissue and organs
11. relationship in which microorganisms compete for survival in a common environment by taking actions that inhibit or destroy another organisms