Objectives for Bacterial Pathogenesis: Factors that Promote Conization of the Host - The Ability to Evade Adaptive Immune Defenses

Learning Objectives for "Bacterial Pathogenesis: Factors that Promote Colonization of the Host
6. The Ability to Evade Adaptive Immune Defenses"

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

1. State 4 four ways the antibody molecules made during adaptive immunity protect us against bacteria.

2.* Briefly describe 4 ways a bacterium might evade our adaptive immune defenses and name a bacterium that does each.

Think-Pair-Share Questions

1. Staphylococcus aureus produces protein A, a protein that binds to the Fc portion of antibodies.

How might this enable S. aureus to resist adaptive immunity?

2. Many bacteria that colonize the mucous membranes produce immunoglobulin protease, an enzyme that hydrolizes antibodies of the IgA class.

How might this enable these bacteria to resist adaptive immunity?

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