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What is Graft versus host disease?
What does the term "Graft versus host disease" mean? Immunologic reaction involving the attack of host cells by donor immune cells.
What transplanted tissues can cause graft-vs.-host disease?
The only transplanted tissues that house enough immune cells to cause graft vs. host disease are the blood and the bone marrow.
Does chickenpox have a host cell?
Yes, chickenpox is a viral disease and all viruses need host cells to reproduce and cause an organism health problems.
An infection disease is a disease that?
Not to be confused with a contagious disease, a infectious disease is one that infects cells and can reproduce within it via its own DNA structure. A contagious disease is one that can travel from one host to another.
Does fifth disease have swollen cheeks?
fifth disease doesn't have swollen cheeks
How is the target host of a viroid-caused infectious disease different than the host of other pathogens?
Viroids are a non living pathon that effects primarily plant cells
What forms of graft-vs.-host disease are there?
Bone marrow graft-vs.-host disease comes in an acute and a chronic form. The acute form appears within two months of the transplant; the chronic form usually appears within three months.
How do pregnancy contribute aplastic anemia?
it could be an autoimmune process, where fetal cells destroy the innate bone marrow cells of mother as in graft vs. host disease.
What illness can result in a Graft VS Host disease?
Graft vs Host disease is reaction to a bone or stem cell transplant. This is when the body rejects the new bone or cells. This can result in system failure and lead to death in extreme cases.
What evaluation is used to diagnose fetal fifth disease?
Ultrasound is used to diagnose fetal fifth disease.
What does the word host cell mean?
it typically means the cell that hosts a disease and spreads it to other cells
How can you describe two ways that bacteria cause disease?
Bacteria that cause disease are called pathogens. ( as are any other microorganism that causes disease). Pathogens cause disease either by 1) preventing host tissues from functioning properly. i.e stop oraganelles in the cells from working or by reproducing and bursting cells. 2) Producing toxins which destroy host tissues.
