Across
- 3. Disease caused by the invasion of a pathogen
- 6. Passing of an infectious disease
- 8. Second line of defence ... response
- 11. A foreign substance that invades the body
- 13. A self marker
- 15. Phagocyte that 'eats' pathogens and can trigger the third line of defence
- 16. Cells that remember specific antigens
- 18. Disease caused by genetic or lifestyle
- 19. Biological agents that produce disease
Down
- 1. Small white blood cells involved in the third line of defence
- 2. B-lymphocytes that produce antibodies
- 4. Third line of defence ... immune response
- 5. Proteins that combine to neutralise antigens on invading pathogens and their toxins
- 7. Factors that allow pathogens to enter cells
- 9. First line of defence ... immune response
- 10. Ability of a pathogen to cause a disease
- 11. Factors that allow a pathogen to bind and maintain attachment to a host cell
- 12. T-lymphocytes that destroy infected cells (also called killer T cells)
- 14. Organism in which the pathogen lives
- 17. T-lymphocytes that begin the cell-mediated response
