ANFS332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Capnocytophaga Canimorsus, Zoonosis, Lyme Disease
22 Sep 2019
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Snap is just a yes or no, blue color or no blue color. A zoonotic disease is an animal disease that . Can be transferred from one animal to another. Viruses are generally smaller than bacteria and divide in order to replicate. Animals can respond immunologically to 10"s of millions of different antigens. They are able to do this through the process of somatic selection. Woman dies after getting infection from dog lick. This is an example of a zoonotic source of a disease. This is an example of an opportunistic pathogen. Most of these people were immunocompromised, they could not handle the abnormal bacteria. Sepsis is an example of an inflammatory response gone bad . Gram-negative rod is a member of the flavobacteriaceae. These bacteria live in the mouths of humans and animals. Capno refers to this bacteria"s ability to survive in high levels of carbon dioxide.
