IMM250H1 Lecture Notes - Listeriosis, Antigen, Phagocytosis
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Immune system: the black death, deadliest pandemics in europe in 1300s, plague spread through the trade routes from bacteria on rats (yersiniapestis, abu mohammed was first to disgnose smallpox vs. measles, allergic asthma, understood fever is a mechanism for fighting infection, avicenna > father of modern medicine, variolation > old practice of inoculating someone with smallpox to produce immunity to disease > lead to vaccinations, louis pasteur > attenuated germ cultures, small pox vaccination started in 1796, in 1979 who declared virus had been eradicated, koch"s postulates, the microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but shouldn"t be found in healthy animals, the microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture, the cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism, the microorganism must be re isolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.
