Across
- 1. conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness.
- 5. the state or quality of being resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen.
- 7. a disease characterized by inflammation of the liver.
- 9. a substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen, typically prepared from an inactivated or weakened form of the causative agent or from its constituents or products.
- 11. any of a group of spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools.
- 12. spread from one person or organism to another by direct or indirect contact.
- 13. microorganism that can cause disease
- 15. an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a pathogen, disease, or parasite from one animal or plant to another.
- 16. a microorganism which causes disease.
- 17. a phylum or group of phyla that comprises the single-celled microscopic animals, which include amoebas, flagellates, ciliates, sporozoans, and many other forms.
- 19. a toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body, especially the production of antibodies.
Down
- 2. a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics.
- 3. a form of small leukocyte (white blood cell) with a single round nucleus, occurring especially in the lymphatic system.
- 4. a severe form of viral hepatitis transmitted in infected blood, causing fever, debility, and jaundice.
- 6. a disorder of structure or function in a human
- 8. an infectious disease.
- 10. an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat
- 13. lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid.
- 14. a sore throat with fever caused by streptococcal infection.
- 18. a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.
