BIOL 2051 Chapter : UNIT 7
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11/14/2011 6:41:00 pm: sterile prior to birth, bombarded with and colonized by microbes when born through air, people, food and water (milk), competition for whoever"s most fit for microenvironment become resident flora, f. y. i. : chlamydia is leading cause of blindness (don"t memorize list all places on body that are colonized by microflora) Skin: microbes are associated with warm, moist places like the sebaceous and apocrine sweat glands in skin, skin flora, transient microorganisms (mostly gram -) and resident microorganisms- mostly gram +:examples and gram - :examples: factors: temp & moisture, age, personal hygiene(bath to rid microbial load) fig 27. 3b. Innate immune response is dependent open if it can be destroyed by a lysosome. Phagocytosis: pigments, molecules scavenge toxic oxygen, tuberculosis set up residence in macrophages, leukocidins, capsule. If they don"t, then your cells will be destroyed: overview(general to both types, 1. Innate immune response 1st , then adaptive immune respones recognize pathogen engulf and digest: 2.
