Infectious Disease & Defense against Disease

Figure 17.CO: The Anopheles gambia mosquito is a malaria vector in the Orient. Courtesy of James Gathany/CDC

Figure 17.CO insert: A TEM of a section through a red blood cell infected with malarial parasites (Plasmodium sp.) © Omikron/Photo Researchers, Inc.

Figure 17.1: Five possible origins of normal microflora in newborn

Figure 17.2: The course of disease, as typified by measles

Figure 17.3: Methods of transmitting disease

Figure 17.4: Tissue invasion Reprinted with permission from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM News. 1992, Vol. 58: 486) Photo courtesy of Doctor Brett Finlay.

Figure 17.5: The relationship between host resistance and disease

Figure 17.6A-E: The mechanism of phagocytosis

Figure 17.6F-I: The mechanism of phagocytosis

Figure 17.7: The origin of the immune system

Figure 17.8: The process of cell-mediated immunity

Figure 17.9: The process of antibody-mediated immunity

Figure 17.10A-C: Details of an antibody molecule

Figure 17.10D-E: Details of an antibody molecule

Figure 17.11: The five types of antibodies

Figure 17.12: Five mechanisms by which antibodies interact with antigens

Figure 17.13: The four types of acquired immunity

Figure 17.14: The process of anaphylaxis and allergy