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Microbiology II

 

Material for Final exam

STDs--chapter 25 and related organisms

Table 25.2

Neisseria, spirochaetes , Treponema, Borrelia, Leptspira

Syphilis, Lyme Disease

Host Defenses

Factors--handout--complement, interferon, lysozyme, opsonin

Properdin, histones

Endogenous flora--role in protecting human body

Organs--skin, mucous membranes, eyes, respiratory tract, GI tract

Specific--organs of immune

Skin, thymus gland, lymph node, etc  RES (reticular endothelium system)

Role of Ig--A, D, G, E, M

Cells of the immune system and what is their function and structure and role of these cells

Monocytes, granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils), lymphocytes (T and B cells, blast cells, plasma cells)

Antigenicity/foreignness