Self Quiz for Bacterial Pathogenicity: Factors that Promote Colonization of the Host

Self Quiz for Bacterial Pathogenicity: Factors that Promote Colonization of the Host
1. The Ability to Contact Host Cells

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
Do not just click on the answers and write them out. This will not test your understanding of this tutorial.

1. State why it might be of an advantage for a bacterium trying to colonize the bladder or the intestines to be motile. (ans)

2. Name two spirochetes that use invasins and motility to penetrate host cells and name an infection each causes. (ans)

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