Chapter10: Infection Control
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How do you distinquish between Normal flora vs. Pathogen?
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A wide range of microbes is associated with different parts of their host organism. Some of these microbes confer several advantages to the host organisms while the rest of the microbes cause various diseases.
The ability to cause infection is termed as pathogenicity. The severity of the infection caused by a pathogen is termed as virulence.
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