8.L.1.1/2.2 Infectious Disease 1

drugs that kill bacteria or slow their growth

• Antiviral   

• Vaccine

• Antibiotic 

• Parasite

An organism that lives on or in another organism and benefits from the other organisms expense, they use the tissue or fluid of the host as a food source

• microorganism

• parasite

• host

• pathogen

1.      One celled or many celled organisms that cause disease (examples include yeasts, molds & mildew)

• parasite

• virus

• bacteria

• fungi

1.      Nonliving Microscopic core of genetic material surrounded by a protein coating that cause illness when they infect a living cell

• virus

• bacteria

• parasite

• fungi

A weakened or dead form of the pathogen that stimulates the immune system to make antibodies

• antibiotic

• antiviral

• vaccine

• host

Organism on which a parasite lives

• pathogen

• host

• bacteria

• fungus

  One-celled (prokaryotic) organisms that are grouped according to shape

• virus

• bacteria

• parasite

• fungi

Drugs that slow down the rate at which the virus reproduces

• antibiotics

• vaccine

• antivirals

• antigrowers

Which is non living?

• virus

• bacteria

Which thrives in damp environments

• virus

• fungus