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What do viruses, prions, and viroids have in common?  (Check all that apply)  

A blue color in our ELISA assay corresponds to: Check all that apply

A student who traveled internationally was  in good health with no signs of allergies yet a blood test revealed an elevated eosinophil count.  What is the most likely explanation?

This antibody is the first class produced in response to an infection.

 A transducing phage contains:

A __________ is a complex _________ that contains many different _________.

H. pylori is able to infect the _______ because it produces the virulence factor ________.

Which technique provides the most information about a bacterial isolate?

Which antibody can cross the placenta?  

Farmers in Quebec voluntarily stopped using cephalosporins (medically important antibiotics) in poultry production early in 2005.  Over the next two years, E. coli (green squares) and Salmonella (blue diamonds) were isolated from retail chicken and tested for cephalosporin (ceftiofur) resistance.  Levels of cephalosporin use in human medicine (gray bars) as well as cephalosporin resistance in human isolates (red X’s) was measured over the same period of time.  What can you conclude from these data?