Potential Short Answer Questions (Some may be turned into MC questions): 1.

Be able to integrate disease terminology to a case study: prevalence, incidence, classification of infectious disease (contagious, communicable, non-communicable); transmission type, occurrence (epidemic, pandemic, etc.) *****look at specific examples for occurrence of a disease in lecture 15 pg. 5-6

2. Describe components of microbial antagonism. How do humans acquire their normal flora?

3. Describe the steps for Kochs postulates using the figure from your book (Fig. 14.3).

4. Draw and describe the disease cycle.

5. List microbial structures that might be tagged by TLRs. Host Toll-like receptors (TLRs) mediate the immune system by tagging foreign cells- peptidoglycan, LPS/ proteinsflagellin/DNA or RNA.