Across
- 1. Infection involving only one organ or site
- 3. Period of infection marked by fever and early symptoms
- 9. Harmfulness of a disease; relative power of a pathogen
- 10. Insects and rodents that transmit infection and diseases
- 11. Illness or infection that may be brief with a sudden onset
- 12. Body's first line of defense against invasion of pathogens
- 14. A form of adaptive immunity
- 17. Person that harbors pathogens without being sick
- 21. The only drug known to treat MRSA
- 22. Retrovirus that attacks and destroys the immune system T-helper leukocytes
- 23. Type of transmission from person to person contact
- 24. Immunity that exists from the time of birth
- 25. Process of the destruction of bacteria by WBCs during the inflammatory process
Down
- 2. Study of the ways the body resists infection
- 4. Herpes simplex is an example for this type of infection
- 5. Method of transmission from eating contaminated food
- 6. Example of a mixed infection
- 7. Transmission of Hepatitis B
- 8. Infection that follows or complicates the original infection
- 13. Illness or infection that has a continued presence
- 15. The body's local tissue reaction to injury
- 16. Immunity produced by the body producing antibodies in response to antigens
- 18. The proliferation and growth of any microorganism or virus in the body
- 19. Severe allergic reaction possibly resulting in death
- 20. The spread of infection from one area of the body to another location of the body