Define the terms primary pathogen, opportunist, and virulence.

Q: Illustrate on a flow chart the development of microbial disease considering pathogenisis and…

A: Microbial Diseases is  defined as sicknesses or ailments caused in animals and humans by the…

Q: Explain the factors contributing to pathogenicity and virulence of microbes.

A: Not all microbes are pathogenic, only the microbes having the potential to cause disease is known as…

Q: escribe the factors that contribute to the emergence or re-emergence of disease

A: Emerging diseases include the newly appeared disease in a population, but that disease is rapidly…

Q: Explain the concept of portal of entry and list the major portals of entry with examples of…

A: Microbes are the tiny organisms that cannot be seen with naked eyes.

Q: Differentiate between contamination,infection, and disease. What are the possible outcomes in each?

A: Microbiology is the study of living organisms called microbes which cannot be seen through naked…

Q: Describe the factors that affect virulence/ pathogenicity

A: A microbe that is capable of causing disease is referred to as a pathogen. Pathogenicity is the…

Q: Explain several ways in which true pathogens differ from opportunisticpathogens.

A: True or primary fungal pathogens are those species that can invade and grow in a healthy…

Q: Define infection, infectious disease, pathogenicity, virulence, and opportunistic pathogen.

A: Parasitology is the examination of parasites, their hosts, and the correlation among them. As a…

Q: Describe major ways that microorganisms damage their host.

A: A microorganism or microbe is defined as a living thing that is too small and tiny to be visualized…

Q: List examples of physical and chemical barriers toinfection.

A: The innate immune system has various first line barriers to prevent infections. These are in place…

Q: Discuss the effects of several virulence factors that help microbesinvade hosts and evade host…

A: Pathogen also known as disease-causing biological agents are the organisms that can cause disease or…

Q: Mention and explain two virulence factors of bacterial pathogens

A: Virulence factors are the molecules produced by bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa which…

Q: Define the term pathogen and identify causal agents for a range  of infectious diseases involving,…

A: A pathogen is an infectious biological agent capable of putting its host in a diseased state. They…

Q: Describe the characteristics of infectious diseases, including the course of disease, duration of…

A: Infectious diseases are those that may transfer from one person to another person through direct…

Q: Explain the differences between communicable and noncommunicable infectious diseases, and between…

A: A disorder refers to the impaired structure of function in an organism like a human, plant, or…

Q: Explain the concept of portal of entry, and list the major portals ofentry with examples of…

A: Infection is defined as the condition when some disease causing agent enters the body of an…

Q: Give two disease caused by bacteria with definition, and briefly discuss the causative agent,…

A: The infection disease process depends on how far the pathogen is able to proliferate itself even…

Q: Put the following in the correct order and describe each pattern of disease : period of…

A: A disease can be described as unhealthy state of body in which some part of body is affected and is…

Q: Define the term opportunism, illustrating your answer with two contrasting examples of organisms…

A: When a microbe penetrates a person's body and harm, it is called an infection. The microbe survives,…

Q: Provide examples of persistent and transforming infections, describing their effects on the host

A: Introduction: Persistent infection refers to the infection affecting the host and lasting from few…

Q: Mechanisms of virulence by microorganisms include

A: Virulence is defined as the ability of a microorganism to infect the host cell and cause disease.…

Q: Discuss the following virulence factors: collagenase, hemolysin, siderophore. For each, explain the…

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Q: Correlate zoonotic bacterial infection and disease severity with bacterial virulence factors

A: Any infectious disease caused by a pathogen that has jumped from an animal to a human is known as…

Q: Discuss how a pathogen causes an infection. Include definitions for primary pathogen, opportunistic…

A: Organisms become diseased when a pathogen (disease-causing agent) comes in contact with it and…

Q: Explain what is happening during each stage of infection. Compare and contrast: systemic, local, and…

A: The progression of an infection or disease occurs in four stages and there are several patterns in…

Q: Distinguish between pathogenicity and virulence.

A: Introduction  We are surrounded by various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungus etc. Every…

Q: Describe the molecules or structures that facilitate pathogenadherence to host tissues.

A: The cell surface receptor or appendages that are known to favor the attachment of bacteria to the…

Q: Explain several ways that true pathogens differ from opportunistic pathogens.

A: Organisms which causes disease are referred to as pathogens. They are of five main types- Viruses,…

Q: Describe and explain what is meant by the following (physiological disease, psychological disease…

A: It is a type of disorder that occurs due to disruption of functions of the body and due to this,…

Q: Please discuss pathogenicity and the mechanisms by which microorganisms can attack the human body.

A: Any condition in which the body's normal structure or functioning is damaged or hindered is referred…

Q: An epidemic may be detected by observing

A: Endemic is used to describe diseases that spreads rapidly to a large number of people of a given…

Q: Identify adaptations that have contributed to pathogen success.

A: Introduction :- Plant and animal diseases can be infectious or non-infectious. We'll concentrate on…

Q: Mention and Explain two (2) virulence factors of bacterial pathogens

A: Microorganisms develop or secrete some factors that can evoke pathogenicity in the host, called…

Q: escribe three (3) methods by which pathogens are transmitted and give an example of each..

A: A pathogen is a disease-causing organism. Microbes are found in abundance in your body. These…

Q: Describe  diseases that used to be considered as noninfectious. Give an example.

A: Answer:Introduction: Infectious diseases are occurred if an organism invades into the body cells,…

Q: Distinguish community-acquired pathogens from health-care– associated pathogens, and explain why…

A: An organism that causes disease we define it by a term called a pathogen.  An organism that causes…

Q: Categorize the different types and degrees of pathogens anddifferentiate pathogenicity from…

A: A pathogen is an organism capable of producing disease. It can also be categorized as an infectious…

Q: Discuss both persistent and transforming infections.

A: Infection is a transmissible disease that works on the invasion and replication of various…

Q: Explain the Phenomena of Pathogenicity and virulence

A: Pathogenicity and virulence both terms are used relatively to define the relationship of host and…

Q: Discuss the differences between pathogenicity and virulence.

A: Both pathogenicity and virulence are qualitative terms related to the disease causing capacity of an…

Q: Define the term virulence and how to determine it.

A: In biology, virulence is defined as the degree to which a pathogenic organism can cause disease.…

Q: Classify acute and chronic diseases according to infectivity and communicability.

A: Introduction  We are surrounded by various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungus etc. Every…

Q: Differentiate between a microbe’s pathogenicity and its virulence.

A: Microbes are minute living organisms that can be found all around us but cannot be seen with the…