BIOL 3900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Q Fever, Trematoda, Prodrome
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Indirect methods: (contaminated food, water, fomites; arthropod vectors; reservoirs) Q fever, enter through mouth, wound, arthropod bite. Destroy red blood cell, induces anemia, and limits oxygen delivery. Stain with basic dyes, function in allergic reaction. Stain with acidic dye, neutralize basophil and phagocytic. Major phagocyte in blood, in tissue called macrophages. Bathe cells, supply oxygen and nutrients, collects waste. Pockets of lymphatic tissue located along the lymph vessels. Exist in one species of organism but not others. Exist in certain individual due to way of life. Exist in one racial group but not in others. Bile: acidic, produced by liver, stored in gallbladder for fat digestion. Nonspecific defense by the body to an injury in the tissue. Kills cells without mhc proteins, usually cancer cells, infected by viruses. A series of 20 proteins in the blood, bind and destroy pathogen. Immunogens, any foreign substances that elicit a response by the body immune system.
