Think-Pair-Share Questions

1. Briefly describe how bacterial quorum sensing may play a role in pathogenicity by:

a) Promoting colonization of a new host;

b) Enabling the bacterium to persist within that host; and

c) Allowing some of the bacteria to spread to a new location within a host or to a new host.

2. Briefly describe how the ability to produce a type 3 secretion system might play a role in a pathogen colonizing the body and causing an infection.