Learning Objectives for "Bacterial Pathogenicity: Factors that Promote Colonization of the Host
1. The Ability to Contact Host Cells"

After completing this section you should be able to perform the following objectives.

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

2**. Describe specifically how certain bacteria are able to use motility to contact host cells and state how this can promote colonization.

3*. Briefly describe why being extremely thin and being motile by means of axial filaments may be an advantage to pathogenic spirochetes.

4. Give one example of how a nonmotile bacterium may be able to better disseminate within a host.

5. Give a brief description of how a bacterium may use toxins to better disseminate from one host to another.

(*) = Common theme throughout the course

(**) = More depth and common theme

Highlighted Bacterium

1. Read the description of Helicobacter pylori and match the bacterium with the description of the organism and the infection it causes.

• RETURN TO "BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY: FACTORS THAT PROMOTE COLONIZATION OF THE HOST - THE ABILITY TO CONTACT HOST CELLS AND DISSMINATE WITHIN THE HOST"

Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.

Last updated: October, 2018
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