Learning Objectives for "The Adaptive Immune System: Ways That Antibodies Defend the Body - Agglutination of Microorganisms"

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

1.* Discuss the how antibodies defend the body by agglutinating microorganisms. (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.)

(*) = 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.