Ch. 13 questions

1.    How is a person initially colonized with biota? Where at on the body and what microbes are common?

2.    What are factors that increase susceptibility to infection? (aka what increases pathogenicity?)

3.    What are the portals of entry?

4.    What are signs versus symptoms?

5.    Describe the patterns of infection we discussed in class. (Local, Focal…etc.)

6.    Describe the patterns of transmission in communicable diseases (Direct, droplet…etc)

7.    What are the signs and symptoms of inflammation?

8.    Define the following:

o  Carrier

o  endemic

o  epidemic

o  epidemiology

o  Endogenous infections

o  Infectious dose

o  Microbial antagonism

o  Normal biota

o  Nosocomial infection

o  Opportunistic pathogen

Ch. 14 questions

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