Infectious Disease Ch. 21

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Across
  1. 2. areas.
  2. 7. The body’s most sophisticated defense
  3. 8. Organisms such as yeasts, molds, and mushrooms that grow best in warm, dark,
  4. 9. A type of lymphocyte that helps the immune system destroy pathogens.
  5. 10. An organism that is so small it can only be seen through a microscope.
  6. 13. pathogens.
  7. 14. injury.
Down
  1. 1. The smallest type of pathogen
  2. 3. The body’s ability to destroy a pathogen that it has previously encountered before the pathogen is able to cause disease.
  3. 4. A lymphocyte that produces antibodies.
  4. 5. A disease caused by an organism or virus that enters and multiplies within the human body
  5. 6. Simple, single-celled microorganisms
  6. 7. The body’s general response to all kinds
  7. 11. A protein that attaches to the surface of pathogens or to the toxins produced by pathogens, keeping the pathogen or toxin from harming the body.
  8. 12. A microorganism or virus that causes disease