Across
- 3. person who harbors the infection
- 4. clusters of bacteria
- 7. spiral, corkscrew or slightly curved
- 8. place where pathogen survives and grows
- 9. pairs of bacteria
- 13. disease caused by protozoa
- 14. organisms that can be seen only with a microscope
- 18. carried through moisture or dust in air
- 20. caused by pathogens invading the body
- 21. simple one-celled microbes
- 22. microbes that cause disease
- 24. touching the infected person can be blood and body fluids
- 25. single budding forms of fungus
Down
- 1. body secretions that allow pathogen to leave reservoir
- 2. round or spherical
- 5. method that pathogen travels from person to person
- 6. smallest microbe
- 10. touching an object that has been contaminated
- 11. yeasts that can cause infection
- 12. spread within approx 3-4 feet through sneeze, cough etc
- 15. the microorganism that can produce the disease
- 16. simple one celled organisms
- 17. broken skin, mucous membrane or other way pathogen enters the body
- 19. chains of bacteria
- 23. rod shaped