IMM250H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Smallpox, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
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Pathogens: microbes that cause diseases when they get inside us and start to replicate. Viruses: use the machinery of the host"s cells to reproduce. Multicellular parasite: biggest type and cannot enter the cells but can live in body cavities. Phagocyte: tries to destroy the microbe intracellularly. Immune system must recognize and respond to internal threats. Immunopathology: immune induced disease; cause when immune system responds. Thucydides: a greek historian who made a connection between survivors and later resistance to a illness after the peloponnesian war between sparta and athens. Small pox is caused by a variola major. Variolation: inoculation by material from variola pustule to produce immunity. Lady mary wortley and the royal experiment. Leukocytes: adaptive and innate immunity are mediated by them/white blood cells. Immunitas: comes from latin and means being exempt. Thucydides: made a connection between who survived the plague (peloponnesian war) and later resistance to the disease.
