Year 11 · SACE Stage 1
Infectious disease
Classify pathogens and practise transmission, defences, immunity and antimicrobial resistance.
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Pathogens and disease categories
Classify causative agents from their defining features.
Not attempted8 questionsTransmission and outbreak numbers
Match routes to controls and compare risks using denominators.
Not attempted8 questionsHost entry and antigen recognition
Identify the molecules and routes involved in host–pathogen recognition.
Not attempted8 questionsBarriers and innate defence
Match first-line barriers and innate components with their functions.
Not attempted8 questionsAdaptive immune responses
Match adaptive components to functions and read primary/secondary response data.
Not attempted8 questionsActive, passive and vaccine immunity
Classify immunity mechanisms and calculate simple vaccine-data quantities.
Not attempted8 questionsAntibiotics, resistance and control
Match controls to targets and read antibiotic-susceptibility results.
Not attempted8 questions