Match the following descriptions with the best term. The terms will only be used once.

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Study of fungal infections

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The ability to cause diseases

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Portal of entry for sexually contracted pathogens

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Dissolves “intracellular cement” allowing pathogen to penetrate tissues

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Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

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Relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the other

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Diseases that are easily and rapidly spread from one host to another

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Factors such as age, nutrition, gender that affect susceptibility to a disease

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Diseases where symptoms develop rapidly but lasts only a short period of time

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Individual whose resistance to infection is impaired by disease,therapy, or burns.

A.Predisposing factors

B.Commensalism

C.Mycology

D.Pathogenicity

E.Contagious disease

F.Compromised host

G.Genitourinary tract

H.Acute disease

I.Hylauronidase

J.Parasitism