BMD 402 Lecture 10: TEST 2 P1
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Host - organisms on or in which a microbe establishes a relationship. Symbiosis - long term relationship where both the microbe and host live together. Mutualism - host and microbe both benefit and neither are harmed. Commensalism - microbe benefits but neither are harmed. Parasitism - microbe benefits and the host is harmed. Colonization - adherence of commensal/pathogens to a host surface. Infection - a microbe invades and multiplies in host tissue. Disease - host responds to the infecting pathogen/ toxic products. Communicable - capable of being transmitted from an infected individual to another uninfected individual. Non-communicable - disease that is not typically transmitted from an infected individual to another uninfected individual. Person appears infected, but pathogen is gone and the toxins that produce the symptoms is what actually remains. Carrier : a host that carries the pathogen as asymptomatic or chronic infection.
