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What are microorganisms that cause infectious disease are called?
What are three types of microorganisms?
How do bacteria and viruses make us feel ill?
What microorganism damages the cells in which it reproduces?
How do white blood cells help to defend against pathogens?
How do viruses cause disease?
How does ingesting pathogens work?
How do antibodies protect the body against?
How do antitoxins destroy toxins?
What leads to the immunity from a specific pathogen?
What can stimulate antibody
production in some cases?
What happens if a large proportion of the population is immune to a pathogen?
What did Semmelweis recognize?
What did Semmelweis insist doctors do?
What did Semmelweis find when doctors washer their hands?
What do some medicines including paracetamol do?
What do medicines such as Antibiotics, including penicillin do to pathogens?
What can Antibiotics not kill?
Why cant antibiotics kill viral pathogens?
What does the use of antibiotics
greatly reduce
What does overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics result in?
How have strains of bacteria, including MRSA, developed resistance?
How can further resistance to antibiotics be prevented?
What do mutations of new pathogens produce?
What happens if antibiotics and vaccinations are no longer effective
against a new resistant strain of the pathogen?
What do antibiotics kill?
What happens when individual resistant pathogens survive and
reproduce?
Why aren't antibiotics not used to treat
non-serious infections, such as mild throat
infections?
What does the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of
bacteria necessitate?
How can people be immunised against a disease
What do vaccines do?
What is the purpose of vaccines?
Why is a person
immune to future infections by the microorganism after a vaccine?
What is the MMR vaccine used for?
What is required for investigating the action of disinfectants
and antibiotics
Why is the petri dish and culture media sterilised?
Why is the innoculated loop sterilised?
Why is the lid of the petri dish sterilised?
What is the maximum cultures are incubated at in schools and colleges?
Why is a temperature of 25 degrees centigrade used to incubate the culture?
What temperature is used in industry to incubate cultures?
