Across
- 4. From circulatory system, an exotoxin that travels to its principal site of action, the neuromuscular junctions of skeletal muscles.
- 5. Human TSE/ sheep scrapie, kuru, and BSE.
- 8. Paralytic disease that involves invasion of motor neurons causes various degrees of flaccid (floppy) paralysis over a period of a few hours to several days.
- 10. Crops of lesions.
- 12. Meningoencephalitis/ commonly acquired by swimming in warm ponds and streams.
- 13. Meningeal infection.
- 15. Neurodegenerative disease with very long incubation periods (years) but rapid progressions once they begin/ prions cause these.
Down
- 1. Attack sensory brain cells/ infection demyelinizes certain parts of the cerebrum.
- 2. Restricted permeability of blood vessels in the brain/ prohibits most microorganisms from passing into the CNS.
- 3. Gram-negative/ transmitted by droplet aerosols or direct contact with secretions.
- 6. Slow, progressive zootonic disease characterized by a fatal encephalitis/ incubation period is 2 weeks to even years.
- 7. Causes the majority of bacterial pneumonias.
- 9. Tough casing of three membranes that encase the soft tissue of the brain and spinal cord.
- 11. Virus that attacks the nervous system/ spreads along the pathway of the spinal cord.
- 14. Powerful exotoxin that is a neurotoxin/ binds to target sites on peripheral motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain.