Bacterial Pathogenesis: How Bacteria Cause Disease
How bacteria cause disease, step by step: pathogenicity versus virulence, infectious dose, entry, adherence, colonization, invasion, toxins, and how pathogens evade the immune syst...
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Bacterial Virulence Factors: The Tools Bacteria Use to Cause Disease
Bacterial virulence factors grouped by the job they do: adhering, invading, resisting phagocytosis, damaging tissue, and persisting. How adhesins, enzymes, capsules, toxins, and bi...
Chain of Infection: The Six Links and How to Break Them
The chain of infection explained: infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, and susceptible host, with how each infection-control measure...
Types and Patterns of Infection: How Infections Are Described
The types and patterns of infection explained through four questions: how widespread, how many microbes, what time-course, and where acquired, plus carrier states and their clinica...
Normal Flora of the Skin: Types, Roles, and Culture Report Meaning
What normal skin flora is, the resident and transient organisms that live there, and what "growth of skin flora" means on a blood or urine culture report.