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The ability to recognize and destroy an individual pathogen or its products that does not rely on previous exposure to a pathogen or its products is called _______________.

This acid-fast intracellular pathogen is transmitted by airborne droplets and infects macrophages. Symptoms can include cough, hemoptysis, fever, night sweats, and weight loss, though the disease can also be asymptomatic. Treatment takes many months and more than one antimicrobial.

This is the pathogen that causes bubonic plague.

______________ is severe type 1 hypersensitivity that leads to vasodilation, a life threatening drop in blood pressure, wheezing/difficulty breathing; it is treated with epinephrine.

____________ is a lack of B cells and/or T cells leading to inability to mount an immune response. 

This gram positive, rod-shaped Bacteria enters the body through contaminated wounds and can cause lockjaw and spastic paralysis in unvaccinated individuals.

_____________________ (2 words) is the ability of a compound to inhibit or kill a pathogen without adversely affecting the host.

The tuberculin skin test looks to identify ________ specific to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Type I hypersensitivity is caused by the release of vasoactive products from mast cells coated with _____.

The name of the disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi is (2 words) ___________.