Focusing on Pathogenesis

Table of Contents

Understanding Host Defenses

Host Defenses

Host defenses

Other Defenses of Body Surfaces

Other Surface Defenses

Other Surface Defenses

Host Defenses - Tissue and Blood

Host Defenses - Tissue and Blood

Virulence - what is it?

Koch’s Postulates

Koch’s Postulates - problems today

Virulence Factors that Promote Colonization and Surval of Bacteria

Bacteria meningitis - the power of capsule formation

Bacterial meningitis - the Power of Capsule formation

Bacterial meningitis

PPT Slide

Disease without Virulence Factors - SBE

Virulence Factors that Damage the Host

Types of Exotoxins

Exotoxins and Disease

Endotoxin and Other Toxic Bacterial Cell Wall Components

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