Description
Details for the disease presentation:
time to present 10 min,
What to put in the presentation:
1) description of the vehicle (virus, bacterium etc), with image
2) description of the life of the vehicle, location and the infected cells
3) symptoms
4) immune response (think about all you have learned so far: type of immune cells activated (are B cells affected? what type of Ig are produced?, are T cells affected?, which type of T cells?, how is the inflammatory response carried on/lasts etc...) This part should take the bulk of your presentation.
5) prevention
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease
About and Transmission
•Chronic autoimmune disease that affects joints
and other tissue
•Causes swelling, pain, stiffness, and eventual
loss of joint and tissue functions
•Transmitted by genes and by bacteria Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
(Healthline, 2017)
Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease
Image of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease
Life of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
•Transmitted by saliva
•Expresses leukotoxin which destroys white blood
cells by causing pores (Aberg, et al., 2014)
•Causes the white blood cells to have irreversible
cell proliferation
Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
•Located in the...