Mrs. Kreiselman, Biology

Infection and Immunity links

Standard 10: Organisms have a variety of mechanisms to combat disease. As a 
basis for under-standing the human immune response: 

10a: The role of the skin in providing nonspecific defenses against 
infection. 

10b: The role of antibodies in the body's response to infection. 

10c: Know how vaccination protects an individual from infectious diseases. 

10d: There are important differences between bacteria and viruses with 
respect to their requirements for growth and replication, the body's primary 
defenses against bacterial and viral infections, and effective treatments of 
these infections. 

10e: Students know why an individual with a compromised immune system (for 
example, a person with AIDS) may be unable to fight off and survive 
infections by microorganisms that are usually benign.
California Standards for Biology

National Institute of Allergy and Infection - Home page
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/

NIH - Great background about the immune system
http://www.lupusresearchinstitute.org/downloads/immune.pdf

Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Information about Bird Flu
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/

How do Allergies work?
http://health.howstuffworks.com/allergy.htm

How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics - good background with an 
excellent narrated animation!
http://www.sumanasinc.com/scienceinfocus/sif_antibiotics.html

From the CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases - important articles and 
background material.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm

Bird Flu: Up-to-Date Infromation From the CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/

CDC - Informaiton about all possible infectious diseases, Alphabeticlaly 
listed
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/index.htm#a

Good table of viruses - their shapes and sizes (From School of Veterinary 
Medicine, UC Davis)
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/viruses/VirusDiagram.html

Watch the videoclip about infectious diseases (associated with the 'cause of 
death' quiz'), including transcript
http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/diseases/activities/activity1.htm

Immune response - short animation
http://health.howstuffworks.com/adam-200095.htm

Facts about the Avian Flu (October 2005) from the Center for Disease Control 
(CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/

Body temperature (fever) and the flu - how does it work?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question45.htm

Resistance to Antibiotics - from CDC
E:\Documents and Settings\Michal\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK28\Frequently Asked Questions  CDC Get Smart.htm

Inflammation - From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation

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