PRESCOTT'S MICROBILOGY
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781264075515
Author: WILLEY
Publisher: MCG
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Chapter 35.1, Problem 4CC
What is an obligate intracellular pathogen? How might it survive?
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All the following would be of benefit to extracellular pathogens, except
A) O the presence of a capsule
B) O ability to prevent the fusion of a phagosome and lysosome
C) O ability to prevent of opsonization
D) O ability to alter cell surface proteins via phase variation
E) O There are no exceptions; all are of benefit to extracellular pathogens.
Our environment contains masses of microorganisms, many of which reside as commensal organisms on our body’s mucosal and epithelial surfaces without causing disease. What two features distinguish a pathogenic microbe from these commensal microbes?
Pathogenic infections induce damage to the host by a variety of mechanisms. While many mechanisms are direct effects of the pathogen, some damaging mechanisms result from the immune response to the infection. Examples of damage caused by the host immune response are:
a) Exotoxin production, endotoxin
b) Cell-mediated inmunity, direct cytopathic effect
c) Endotoxin, inmmunune complexes
d) Direct cythopathic effect, endotoxin
e) Cell-mediated inmunity, inmmunune complexes
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PRESCOTT'S MICROBILOGY
Ch. 35.1 - MICRO INQUIRY During which stages does the host...Ch. 35.1 - Define infection, infectious disease,...Ch. 35.1 - Prob. 2CCCh. 35.1 - What are some important characteristics of a...Ch. 35.1 - What is an obligate intracellular pathogen? How...Ch. 35.1 - Prob. 5CCCh. 35.1 - Prob. 6CCCh. 35.2 - Prob. 1CCCh. 35.2 - Prob. 2CCCh. 35.2 - Define droplet nuclei, vehicle, fomite, and...
Ch. 35.2 - Prob. 4CCCh. 35.2 - Prob. 5CCCh. 35.2 - Prob. 6CCCh. 35.3 - Prob. 1CCCh. 35.3 - Prob. 2CCCh. 35.3 - Prob. 3CCCh. 35.3 - Prob. 4CCCh. 35.4 - What are virulence factors?Ch. 35.4 - What are pathogenicity islands and why are they...Ch. 35.4 - Prob. 3CCCh. 35.4 - Prob. 4CCCh. 35 - Prob. 1RCCh. 35 - Prob. 2RCCh. 35 - Prob. 3RCCh. 35 - Prob. 1ALCh. 35 - Prob. 2ALCh. 35 - Prob. 3ALCh. 35 - Prob. 4ALCh. 35 - Prob. 5ALCh. 35 - Prob. 6AL
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