01:119:131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Commensalism, Koch'S Postulates, Flagellum
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Mutualism (i. e. e. coli - can make vitamin k and digest food) Usually one partner in that pair benefits, other doesn"t benefit nor is harmed (i. e. staph aureus) Infection has gotten to the point where you"re in a state of not perfect health. What kind of organisms are part of our normal flora. If you misplace e. coli and it somehow gets into your urinary tract. Table 14. 3 body tissues, organs, fluids that are normally microbe-free. * four postulates to prove how organisms cause a disease. Tetanus, you get organism into you through a cup. Organisms that make this can start and going deeper into tissue. Figure 14. 6a - like a big orange circle. We can make a vaccine an ineffective form of a toxin, toxoid. Make a diagnosis based on effects on cells. Our body sense we"re infected with an infectious agent.