Top Infection Flashcards

Infection is the invasion of a host organism's body tissues by disease causing agents, their multiplication and also, their reaction of host tissues to these organisms. Infections are caused by infectious agents such as viruses, viroids, and prions, microorganisms such as bacteria, nematodes such as roundworms and pinworms, arthropods such as ticks, mites, fleas, and lice, fungi such as ringworm, and other macroparasites such as tapeworms.
 
Did you know you can get infected just by not washing your hands? Do you understand the word infection in such a way that if you were to become infected with something, you would know that is what it was? Learn all about infections, and how to prevent yourself from animals and bugs that carry them with these flashcards! 
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