HSS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monocyte, 21 Days, Coagulase

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1100
• Professor: Franco Pagotto

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Hss 1100 lecture 1 and 2 (tuesday, january 10th) Different classes: viruses (simplest, also most dangerous, mycoplasma, bacteria, parasites. Correct way: listeria monocytogenes (*listeria caused big outbreak with maple. Leaf foods: 1st name is genus, 2nd name is species. Viruses: made of rna or dna and surrounded by protective capsid, the virus attaches to cell to get inside and replicate rna/dna, make cell form capsid, and eventually move on to contaminate other cells. Normal flora (good bacteria: 2 types resident the bacteria you have that remain forever in lg. intestine, obtained after we are born from mother"s milk with factors of diet/ethnicity/etc. Help with immune stimulation: protection through . How do the bad guys get in: adherence. Enzymes (in flesh eating bacteria: production of toxins that destroy one line of body defence, opportunism; not necessarily pathogenic but from our own natural flora that are in a place they shouldn"t be, immunocompromised host.