Disease Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Pasteur proposed the germ theory of disease
  2. 4. Koch Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens that cause disease
  3. 5. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
  4. 7. When an infectious disease spreads worldwide.
  5. 9. Special proteins which destroy/kills pathogens (made by white blood cells)
  6. 12. treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens(Louis Pasteur) This process is used to make milk safe to drink.
  7. 13. pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria. Also developed a vaccine to prevent Rabies
Down
  1. 1. causes Malaria. It is transmitted by the anopheles mosquito through its saliva when it sucks blood. It is a one-celled, animal-like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms.
  2. 2. When there are lots of cases of an infectious disease in one area of the world.
  3. 6. Drugs that destroy/kill bacteria
  4. 8. A dead or inactive form of a pathogen. They prevent some types of diseases.
  5. 10. A non-living sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce. Not made of cells.
  6. 11. A one-celled prokaryotic microorganism without a nucleus. Cause disease by rapidly reproducing and making toxins which damage our body cells.