Which relationship benefits both the human and the microorganism?

Which relationship benefits the microorganism with no harm to the human?

Which relationship benefits the microorganism and harms the human?

Which relationship harms the human due to benign organisms becoming pathogenic?

What is defined as the ability to spread from one individual to others and cause disease?

What is defined as the ability to produce an immune response?

What is the ability to invade and multiply in a host?

What is the defined as how the microorganism damages tissue?

What is defined as the ability to produce disease?

What is the route by which the organism infects the host?

What is the ability to produce soluble toxins or endotoxins?

What is the capacity of an organism to cause severe disease?

Diseases with relatively high, but constant, rates of infection in a particular population.

Number of new infections in a particular population that greatly exceeds the number usually observed.

Number of new infections that greatly exceeds the number usually observed and spreads over a large area such as a continent or worldwide.

What are defined as agents that can produce fever (exogenous or endogenous)?

Which type of transmission occurs through contact with infections of another individual?

Which type of transmission occurs between mother and child during birth and/or breast feeding?

Which type of transmission occurs from contact with contaminated materials (including towels, food, and vectors)?

Which type of vector transmits microbes through bites/stings?

Which type of vector transmits microbes passively from a contaminated site?

Which type of transmission occurs from transport of microbes via talking, sneezing, breathing, etc.?

Which type of transmission is heavy and can land in a nearby mouth, nose, or eyes? Produced by coughing, sneezing, or talking.

Which type of transmission is lighter and can stay suspended in the air for a long time? Produced by breathing.

What are enzymes that promote infection and facilitate the spread of the microbe?