Exam 17: Immunity and Infection

HIV causes the most infectious disease deaths per year worldwide.

Whooping cough is a respiratory illness cause by the bacterium

Protozoa are associated with all of the following illnesses except

A vaccine is available for a common cause of pneumonia.

When the body responds to a relatively harmless substance as a dangerous pathogen and mounts an immune response,this response is called

Examples of autoimmune disease include

A common bacterium found on the skin in healthy people but capable of causing infection if it enters the body is

The fungus that causes yeast infections is called