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What are some diseases with a living pathogen in the environment?
Tuberculosis, Elephantiasis, African trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)
What are the stages of pathogen development?
Attachment: Pathogen attaches to host cells. Invasion: Pathogen enters host cells and starts to replicate. Evasion: Pathogen evades host immune response. Spread: Pathogen spreads to other tissues and host organisms. Damage: Pathogen causes damage to host tissues and organs.
Who proposed the grem theory of disease?
The germ theory of disease is the theory that microorganisms are the cause of disease. They spread when the host is exposed to the pathogen by various means.
What is the named pathogen that causes Diseases like elephantiasis caused by these worm-like animals?
The three main causes of elephantiasis are Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori. With Wuchereria being the most common.
What is the name of the pathogen that causes for elephantiasis?
Elephantiasis, also called filariasis, is due to infection by a couple different types of parasitic worms. The three most common types of worms are; Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori.
In what three main ways do pathogens affect their host?
A pathogen (being something living from the goodness a body example: a tic living from a dog) 3 ways it can effect the host is: * disease of the host as the pathogen carried disease. * malnutrition of the host as the host can become weak due to the pathogen surviving from the hosts body. Example would be iron deficiency in the host, due to the pathogen using the hosts blood to live on * finally death of the host.
What is an intermediate host that transfers a pathogen?
vector
How is the pathogen transferred to the host?
The pathogen can be transferred to the host in a number of ways, from contact to the transfer of bodily fluids. If someone sneezes that can be a way of contracting the pathogen in the air, for you may breathe it in. There are also waterborne diseases.
What happens once the body is exposed to pathogen?
The pathogen tries to infect the body. The defense mechanism of the body resists the entry of the pathogen. If pathogen succeeds the infection is established and the body becomes sick.
What are three things that can cause disease?
One needs a pathogen , a host and an environment conducive for the pathogen to infect the host.
Why is it better for a pathogen not to kill it host?
when the host dies all it nutrients will go too and the parasite will get nothing so it will die if it doesn't get a new host
What is A pathogen's entry into a host's body tissue called?
Infection
