Microorganisms and Infection

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What is a microorganism?
Any organism too small to be seen by the naked eye
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What is a pathogen?
Microorganisms that cause disease
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What is infection?
The presence of microorganisms causing damage to body cells
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Symbiosis
Benefits humans and not harm the microorganism
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Mutualism
Benefits human and microorganism
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Commensalism
benefits microorganism and not harm the human
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pathogenicity
benefits microorganism and harms the human
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opportunism
a benign microorganism becomes pathogenic because of decreased human host resistance
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Name the 4 stages of progression of infection (from point of view of microorganism)
Colonization, invasion, multiplication, spread
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Name the 4 stages of the clinical infectious disease process (from the point of view of the infected individual)
Incubation period, prodromal stage, invasion period, convalescence
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Name the classes of infectious micrrorganisms
Bacterial infection, viral infection, fungal infection, parasitic and protozoal infection
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