Chapter 16

5. Low pH makes the skin inhospitable to most microorganisms, high concentrations of lipids.
8. stops mitosis, irreversible harm to and poor development of organs.
14. Are positively-charged chemicals that act by disrupting the negatively-charged membranes of bacteria.
15. a waterproofing protein coating the outer layer of epidermis.
16. Can be congenital, few complications in adults, teratogenic. Most common defect is deafness.
17. Contains dsDNA. Can result in maculopapular rash, accompanied with high fever for 3 days.

1. Vit A supplements.
2. Infection of the conjunctiva caused by resident organisms in eye tissues, injury, or contact lenses. Produce a milky discharge.
3. Caused by a virus with ssrna. It implants on resp mucus membranes and infects the tracheal and bronchial cells.
4. Presentation of maculopapular rash. indirect ELISA to test for anti-measles antibodies in the blood (IgM).
6. Antibiotic resistant staph aureus. Skin lesions.
7. Detect presence of the bacterial genome.
9. varicella-zoster virus (VZV) (also known as herpes zoster virus), a dsDNA virus, is the cause.
10. Characterized by flat or slightly raised color bumps(don't have fluids) like measles, rubella.
11. Indirect elisa presence of its antibodies in the blood. IgM. No treatment.
12. Can after after a person has chickenpox and develops later. Leads to long term nerve pin or vision loss.
13. RASH begins on the scalp, face, and trunk, and radiates in sparse crops to the extremities.
14. papule that becomes necrotic and later ruptures to form a painless, black eschar (a deep, dead tissue covering).