Learning Objectives for "The Adaptive Immune System: Ways That Antibodies Defend the Body - Preventing Bacterial Adherence"

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

1.* Discuss how antibodies defend the body by way of preventing bacterial adherence to host cells. (Include what classes or isotypes of immunoglobulins are involved, the role of the Fab portion of the antibody, the role, if any, of the Fc portion of the antibody, and the role of any complement proteins, if any, involved.)

2. Briefly describe 2 different ways bacteria may resist antibodies that block bacterial adherence to host cells.

(*) = common theme throughout the course

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Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
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Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.