Microbiology with Diseases by Body System & Modified MasteringMicrobiology with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Microbiology with Diseases by Body System Package
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ISBN: 9780133857122
Author: Robert W. Bauman Ph.D.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 18, Problem 2TMW
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The reason why scientists cannot use Robert Koch’s postulates in the specific cause of Graves’ disease.
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Autoimmune disorders are where one’s own body destroys its cells. It is found that IgG plays an important role in the autoimmune disorders. The body’s defense mechanism becomes the body’s attacker. The IgG thinks of its own cell as an antigen, when there is no response from the cell, and it destroys it.
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Ch. 18 - Prob. 1CCSCh. 18 - Prob. 1TMWCh. 18 - Prob. 2TMWCh. 18 - A Case of AIDS A 25-year-old man is admitted to...Ch. 18 - Prob. 3TMWCh. 18 - The immunoglobulin class that mediates type I...Ch. 18 - The major inflammatory mediator released by...Ch. 18 - Hemolytic disease of the new born is caused by...Ch. 18 - Farmers lung is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis...Ch. 18 - A positive tuberculin skin test indicates that a...
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