KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Natural Killer Cell, Innate Immune System, Shingles
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Infectious disease pt. 2: can only be infected if it"s in the environment and near you and has to go into you, has to be through hole to hole contact. Invest in killing a pathogen could be expensive. Focus on the reservoir on where the pathogen is. Important for first line response: blood plates can move from the capillaries. Spleen: can take all the garbage collected in the immune system and destroy it, white blood cells digest foreign invaders, heat generated at that location (where wounded, means you"re infected. If in blood stream you can infect the blood and could die within 24 hrs if anti-biotics don"t work. Is surface infection, pus can accumulate, signs immune system is working: once infected, initial response is to produce histamine.