Chapter 20.6, Problem 5QC

Summary Introduction

To review:

The process through which the microorganisms avoid the response by the immune system.

Introduction:

The human body presents resistance to foreign substances like bacteria when they invade the defense system of the human body. The body prepares an immune response to challenge and kill the foreign microbes and the process is called the immune response. The objective of the immune response is to keep the human body safe from all invading pathogens.